Final Fantasy Eleventythousand

Princess is Honored, then stolen, the hero, a lowly knight [the lowly knight has a sixth sense warn him that this is taking place and a mysterious feeling guides him to the princess] in training pursues the kidnappers to find out that it was an inside job, and the king was actually just keeping the princess safe by making her appear to be stolen because he knows his rivals will use her as his Achilles heel [and he is also afraid his kingdom will be invaded soon].. So the princess will go into hiding until she is needed. She will leave behind her identity and travel the world, learning about it so that she may become a better ruler after her father is gone. The lowly knight is taken along by the princess’ body guard, the Red Knight of Almark, one of the most decorated servants to his majesty. As they leave the castle through a secret passage way a dark shadow was watching them. The princess and the crew gain new identities en route [they travel in a typical caravan to avoid suspicion] to the first neighboring kingdom orania. Their mission there is to meet up with the king’s allies there and meet the king.. Who is his long term friend. They get there posing as a construction company carrying hammers and tools.. The princess looks funny with this change in appearance. The crew is the princess, the red knight, the lowly knight, the cook, the maid, and three knights who are buddies, the biggs and wedge types. So they are under cover in the capital of orania, which is the city Orania. They have a “job” in Castle Orania and show the guards their passes and make their way into the castle. On the way they sneak around and find where they are supposed to be, However, on the way to the meeting point, to avoid being found out, they split up. Everyone goes in groups of two. Red Knight/princess Maid/lowly, warrior/warrior, warrior/cook. So they avoid the guards and rendezvous. They have the meeting with the king, who explains that he is being held prisoner by enemies, and there is a false flag rule going on, when the alarm is raised in the middle of the conversation. They are surrounded, it was as if they were betrayed. They wake up in prison. The guards explain that they found a dead orania Soldier who was brutally murdered and hung against the wall with the very sword that killed him so they knew something was up, and raised the alarm on any suspicious people in the castle. Lowly was surprised because he knew none of them killed this person, so was it an accident that they were caught? Pure bad luck? While they are in prison, the princess talks to lowly, she thanks him for coming along and commends him on his bravery, he feels better. They are able to escape from prison when the guards remaining loyal to the old king overtake the dungeon for a moment. The old king is there as well, ready to escape to another land. As they make their escape, they end up in the castle courtyard garden, where there is one figure blocking their way. It is the first time we see the enemy. He wears a dark uniform, an elegant white mask, and carries a long thin sword. The loyal guards attack him, and he slays them easily, until he is right next to the princess, Unable to get there in time lowly watches in horror. At the last second the old king throws himself in front of the princess, and dies for her. His last words are to give her father his best wishes, because it was his birthday today. Lowly pulls the princess away.. The crew gets swooped up by a renegade airship the cook stole from the Docks. The man in the mask just watches them disappear, there is nothing he can do now, they got away. A new knight joins them, it was the old kings body guard, bent on vengeance he joins the club. So the party grows by one. Now it is: Red, Princess, Lowly, Maid, Guards one two and three, Cook, and New. On this airship, which is called the Wandering Beggar, they get told about the enemy by New. New explains that there is an empire growing and taking over the continent kingdom by kingdom, it is an outside threat, the truces the kings and hence the peace was in jeopardy. The take over was happening as secret infiltration, but New believes this is just a preliminary wave of a future more devastating invasion. The princess vows to stop the enemy at any cost, to protect her kingdom. New and Red decide the best thing to do is to leave the princess in a safe place and go investigate Gilead, to find out what the king’s plan is. So they get to a quiet town in the Quanon Valley.. Where grass and pastoral life rule the days as they slowly march by. Red and New take the Guards as well, they are a mission party, they leave Lowly behind to keep an eye on the princess, but only because they don’t expect anything to go wrong, they know he cant put up much of a fight. So the party splits up. Red New and the Three embark with the Beggar to Gilead. Lowly Princess Maid and Cook stay behind and live a quiet life for a while. A new character appears. A good guy in the bad guys land, sets things into motion. In the castle of the bad guy, one good guy, a magical sage witnesses a meeting of the generals and their plan to invade the 3rd Shelf, the continent where jumaria and polonia lie. The military meeting reveals that there are five generals, each entrusted with the invasion of a country in the 3rd shelf. These people themselves are technologically and magically advanced to the point where their kingdom lies between shelves, in sort of a magical dimension. This dimension is unstable, they are coming from the 7th shelf which collapsed from overexploitation, and the inbetween dimension wont sustain them for much longer, so they must invade and take over and overexploit more and more land. Their power comes at the cost of whole worlds being sucked dry of life force. Sage sees the folly in that, and wishes a return to harmony.. And for that reason, he wants the other side to win for once. Sage’s nemesis is a wizard who has planted a spy in Gilead, we are led to believe that this is the man in the mask. [actually its lowly] The events of Orania are replayed in real time, in the way Sage perceives it, in respect to the wizard and the general in charge of orania, and the mission of the man in the mask. The man in the mask was sent by the wizard to capture the princess, and destroy the last living heir to the land of Gilead. Once the royal family of a nation dies, its conquest, in the mana world, of spirit energy becomes complete. Each of the five nations has its Soul engraved in a human of that country. If they die, the country can be conquered. Lowly has some girl drama in the village between maid and princess.. They both kinda compete for him, and he has mixed feelings. The cook doesn’t make things easier lol. Also, the princess cares for children in the village, teaching them music and singing. They prance around the village doing good deeds for everybody. All the people grow to like the new family that moved in. [they had pretended to be newly wed, the princess and lowly] and moved in with their maid and cook, they were nobles trying to escape the city for a happy life. So all is going well, until Lowly is at one moment doing something, and then completely spaces out and ends up somewhere else at night. He doesn’t know what he was doing, but.. In the village, somebody ends up dead in the same way that happened in orania. It was the old mage who kept the village safe. Now everybody is freaking out, least of all lowly, who thinks wtf happened everything was so perfect. The villagers say the murderer is at the garden near the lake, and lowly leaves to confront the killer. Princess comes along in secret, who is secretly followed by maid, who is secretly followed by cook. So Lowly walks into the garden and sees a figure sitting next to the fountain. It is the same masked man from Orania. He seems glib and overconfident. Lowly confronts him and demands he pay for his crimes, and challenges him to a duel. Mask accepts reassuring lowly that he has killed thousands of men stronger than him. Just before the fight starts, the princess jumps out of the bushes and encourages lowly. Then the maid jumps out, and then the cook does too. He has a cheering section, lol. Mask unsheathes his sword.. Lowly Unsheathes his sword. Cliffhanger. [this is gonna be one messed up fight] Red New and 3 arrive in Gilead. They are shocked. Gilead is burning. It is being ravaged by the physical invasion. This new enemy uses terrible monsters to wipe out hundreds of humans at one time.. To burn hundreds of buildings down. The castle is still standing cuz the princess is still alive, they evade the enemy forces and get to the castle and meet the king, who is pretty unhappy at the way things turned out. The king explains that the only reason the magical force field is protecting the castle is because the princess still lives, and it is imperative that the princess be safe at all costs for the sake of all gilead. The only way to save gilead is to awaken the ancient spirit of gilead, the ultimate weapon of defense, leviathan, and only the princess can awaken him. The leviathan is located on a secret island in the south. The temple is a portal to awaken the beast from its slumber, once it is awakened it will come to the defense of gilead and defeat the enemy. The king send the crew on a mission. They must find the princess and bring her to the temple so that leviathan can awaken and fight the enemy in gilead. Leviathan is the source of the magical power for the whole kingdom. [side note: Orania’s beast is the Angelus, the beast will be conquered by the enemy and made to counter Leviathan, on the way to the final climax, it will destroy gilead as well.] So the crew salute the king, and march out the door, determined to accomplish their mission. Nemesis watches the fight between mask and lowly. So nemesis decides to use his powers to control his spy now.. Sage sees the fight and decides to turn on his trump card.. To counter nemesis. This is what happens. They draw swords and charge each other. First, the masked man attempts to attack the princess, and lowly is defending her, but then once the control happens from the other side.. Lowly gets possessed, his eyes glow and he swings his sword and the princess, who is freaked out, and pretty surprised when Mask saves her, he is also possessed, but by Sage. The possession can only happen with the magic items that the two are wearing… The mask is Mask’s item of connection, that’s obvious. Lowly’s object of possession is his family‘s necklace, which glows when he got possessed. After a wicked fight, nemesis has been trying to knock the mask off Mask, to make it 2vprincess, but that didn’t work.. What actually happened was sage was able to break off the necklace, and free Lowly from nemesis’ control, at which moment he remembered all the times he was previously possessed, he killed those people, not mask guy. Mask guy explains to lowly what he must do, he must take this mask, and with that he will gain a link to sage and he will be able to defeat the unmasked Mask. Mask takes off his mask and collapses, Lowly holds it in his hands. As unmask awakens, he gains his bearings again and is angry, he knows that they must fight again, but lowly puts on the mask, and sees the world through new eyes, magic eyes. Unmask fights lowly and is surprised that he is able to stand on two feet against him.. So unmask does the only thing he can do, escape, but in the process, he also takes the necklace. Maskly lets him escape [but not without a great wound], then hugs the princess to comfort her. He says they should leave and find a safer place, where they can’t be found. Sage talks to maskly and guides him to a sacred place. A new crew… the remaining three kingdoms have been preparing for this catastrophe, and appear to be much better prepared than gilead and orania. They already have a party consisting of the three chosen children whose mission it is to awaken their nations’ beasts, each nations’ top fighter, and thirteen elite soldiers. They are professional. They arrive at the first temple to awaken the beast Hyperion. The final Enemy Amaranthium is an immortal being that has been alive for thousands of years and originally evolved on the first shelf. Because it feared death it used any possible method to live, even though it came at the expense of worlds. Logically, amaranthium knows that what it is doing is bad, but is unable to stop the urge to live, to continue. So, when it is finally defeated, it is grateful that it met such a majestic end, relief and sorrow and gratitude and calmness, but finally, lowly cured it of its fear.