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Learning From The Past	By : Daishokaioshin Category: +G through L > Legend Of Legaia Views: 2053 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Note: This story contains spoilers for Legend of Legaia. If you haven't beaten the game, you may wish to not read this. Unless you don't care about spoilers. In which case, read on!
Chapter One
Far to the north in Legaia, a valley enclosed within high-ridged mountains contained two objects of note. The first, furthest north, was the ruins of the Absolute Fortress, once the greatest military stronghold the world had ever seen, then converted into a production facility for the dreaded Mist that drove Seru to madness, and finally reduced to rubble when the Mist Generator there was destroyed by the three Champions Against The Mist... The three Ra-Seru Bearers, Vahn, Gala, and Noa. To the south-west of the Absolute Fortress's remains lay Conkram -- or what was once Conkram. Conkram was a glorious city from whence came the people of Sol, and of Buma, and where the winged Soren, the brilliant Dr. Usha, and even Noa herself had their roots. It was a place more like a palace than a city, with white marble buildings, beautiful statues, and a rich variety of both religious and scientific texts that marked the advancement both spiritually and intellectually that Conkram was well-known for.
And then came the Mist. The weapon meant to end the war between Conkram and Sol caused the city to be engulfed in an artificial Seru, a creature modelled after the beings from the Seru-Kai, but crafted by the hands of humans. The Sim-Seru, as it was called, merged with the city's inhabitants, imprisoning them in its pulsating purple-red flesh, and keeping them in an eternity of insanity and pain. Few remained who retained their minds, and among them were King Nebular and Queen Minea, the parents of both Cort, the prince and heir to throne, and Noa, the young princess. Cort was the one who unleashed the Mist on the world, and brought death and horror to its inhabitants. Noa was the one who defeated her brother, and fought with her friends and allies to end the threat of the Mist. But a cruel trick had been played upon her. When she had seemingly been forced to kill her own brother, but in the process destroyed the Absolute Fortress, upon her return to Conkram...
That was six years ago. Following the final defeat of the Mist, the evil Juggernaut, and the death of all Seru, as well as the Seru-Kai itself, a time of peace had followed. Much rebuilding and much healing took place, and Noa, Vahn, and Gala had taken seperate paths to help people in their own ways. They had met up a few times since then, but for the most part they were too busy to participate in reunions. Noa was raising the reincarnation of her brother for much of that time. In the present, however, Noa stood once more before Conkram. She had grown into a beautiful and healthy woman over the years, standing a good deal taller than she had at 16, and having a fullness to her form that she had lacked back then. Her hips were wider, her arms, legs, and stomach all bore visible muscle, that testified to the fact she had not stopped her training, and she wore her hair in a different style, hanging loose in a red waterfall down her back, and tied off with hollow metal ball with a hole through the middle which her hair was slipped through. Noa's green eyes were not quite as wide and innocent as they had once been, due to both age, and experience. She had also filled out in terms of womanly assets. She did not wear the Ra-Seru Armor she had donned for the final battle against Juggernaut, but rather a simple red vest with a black undershirt, along with black pants, and some sandals. She had become far stronger than she used to be, even with a Ra-Seru. Armor and even weapons were rarely necessary these days when the red-haired woman needed to fight someone or something.
No, Noa had not come to Conkram to fight. She had come for a different purpose. She had already spoken with Dr. Usha about her idea, and he had been surprised but delighted to help. He had managed to construct for Noa another TimeSpace Bomb using something he called a "catalyst" in place of the Fire Droplets that had previously been necessary. Noa wasn't quite as ignorant as she had been as a teenager, but she still was rather oblivious when it came to such things as Dr. Usha's science. The end result was that she had a way to get into Conkram. For the city that had once lain in the valley that Noa now stood in, the city that had been engulfed by a Sim-Seru, had also been destroyed by it. The gigantic clam-like creature had died without the Mist to keep it alive, and the shell had slammed shut on the inhabitants, killing them all... Even Noa's parents. The warrior woman looked at the shell as she stood before it, noting how moss had grown to cover much of it. Like the planet was trying to recover those lost and return them to where they had come from.
Sighing a bit, Noa put one hand to her chest in a gesture familiar to her. She closed her green eyes and asked, "Terra... Is this right? Am I doing the right thing by coming here? What if something bad happens? What if I'm not supposed to go back again? What if... What if my dream was wrong? What if--" But she stopped herself, lowering her hand, and opening her eyes. Terra wasn't here anymore. She hadn't been here for six years, and it was time to stop worrying about 'what-ifs' and do what she had come to do. She walked up to the edge of the shell, and searched for a few minutes before finding what she was looking for. A small crack formed when the shell had slammed shut. The hole was about as big as Noa herself, but compared to the rest of the monstrous Sim-Seru, it was little more than a dent. Dr. Usha had told Noa that this new TimeSpace Bomb was three times as powerful as the previous four TimeSpace Bombs he'd made put together. Thus, Noa would have to be very careful when she set it off. Dr. Usha had added an extended timer so that the mishaps that occurred the last time would not happen this time. She had ten seconds to put as much distance between herself and the bomb as she could.
Noa kneeled down and set the TimeSpace Bomb. The Monk of Biron, Gala, wasn't here this time to do it for her, so she had been instructed in all the technical details she needed to know. It had taken hours of drilling before she understood, but she was confident she was doing it correctly at that moment. Finally, the bomb was set. It looked like an innocent gray cylinder with a few buttons on it. Not the sort of thing one would expect to be capable of rupturing time and space with the force of its explosion. Noa set the timer to the full ten seconds allowed, and took a deep breath. Then she hit the activation button, and started running. Noa was possibly the fastest human being on the planet. She'd definitely been the fastest among the Ra-Seru Bearers, but after more than half a decade of additional training her running speed was something astonishing. She zipped across the grass, but she was still close enough to hear the sound of the TimeSpace Bomb going off when she had only counted off one second in her head. She cursed Dr. Usha under her breath and then started running faster.
The dome of blue energy and electricity expanded outwards from the detonated TimeSpace Bomb at a phenomenal pace, encasing the ground and the shell of the Sim-Seru for thousands of feet all around, and because Noa could not run in a straight line but instead had to run around the curve of the mountains that surrounded Conkram before she could head north, and away from the imminent explosion, she was being threatened with the prospect of being caught in the dome of energy as well. Thus she did the only thing she could do right then. She ran at her maximum speed right at the side of the mountain in front of her. Noa had a Super Art, a martial arts technique which was an upgrade of one of her standard techniques, called the Super Sonic Javelin. It allowed her to, for one brief instant, travel faster than the speed of sound. Over the six years of training Noa had endured, she had learned how to sustain that speed normally, without the use of the actual technique.
She now shot at the rocky wall that approached her at deadly speeds, and ran up the side of the mountain before turning and running along the curve of the craggy peaks, building up even more velocity. Finally, she achieved the necessary speed and her legs were just a blur. The sound of her footsteps were one continuous dull noise of wood on stone, before both the sound of the TimeSpace Bomb, and of her own feet, were blocked out by the deafening sonic boom that resulted from her breaking the sound barrier. A trail of shattered rock lay in her wake, and gravel dust rose sideways into the air, and spiraled after her like a smoke trail. Se rounded the curve of the mountains, and saw that the edge of the crackling blue dome was very close to cutting off her escape route. If she'd stuck to the ground she would have most definitely been engulfed and destroyed. As it was, she still might be. She tried to urge more speed out of her already-tiring leg muscles, as her arms pumped rapidly, but it felt like she was going to tear herself apart already. There was nothing more her body could give. She'd just have to trust that her best was good enough.
In the end, the dome of destructive energy failed to capture her, as she passed it by a good eight seconds before it reached the mountains she was running on. She even managed to slow down mostly afterwards, so that when she ran right into a chunk of the Absolute Fortress's wall, it only felt like her entire body was broken, rather than it actually being so. Then the dome of energy collapsed, letting out a cacaphonious noise of the universe being ruptured in a localized area, and Noa just lay on the ground, on her back, as debris rained down around her. She kept lying there until a stone fell out of the sky and hit her on the forehead. "Ow!" She said and sat up, frowning and rubbing her head. She noted that the pain in her body had ebbed somewhat, but the fact remained that she had run into solid stone at about a hundred miles an hour, and that was not something for which normal humans were designed. If she'd had the resilience provided by a Ra-Seru she would have been able to get up from the impact with little more than a few bumps and bruises. Instead she had to dig out and eat two of the large, red, juicy, Healing Berries when just one of the miraculous fruits were ordinarily enough to fully restore her health.
After she finished eating, she felt much better, and so climbed to her feet, noting that her sandals had been destroyed or lost somewhere along the way when she was running, and then turning to face... Destruction. The mountains that had surrounded Conkram were just plain gone in a large, circular area. And yet the Sim-Seru shell remained. It was not undamaged, but it was still there. Noa took her time walking back to it, surveying the damage to the landscape. Dr. Usha had been looking for another way to get access to this part of the world without relying on the Soren. With the mountains gone, it looked like he could just sail a ship over and land on the newly created beach of burnt and crumbled stone. The stench of things burnt or burning, both rock, and grass, wafted on the air while Noa walked, and her highly-developed sense of smell found it repugnant. Her other senses weren't very well off either. All of them were better than a normal human's, especially smell and hearing, and that explosion had deafened her for about half an hour before noises once more penetrated her awareness. Reaching the charred ground of the crater, with flames still burning in some places, Noa whistled a bit.
The Sim-Seru shell was completely gone in about a thousand foot radius around where the Bomb had been placed, and there were only fragments remaining for another fifteen-hundred feet. Beyond that, however, though burnt the shell was intact. "That was one tough Seru," Noa remarked to herself, and for a moment, expected Terra to comment on some bit of knowledge regarding Sim-Seru, or about how even though it was tough, it had been a work of evil, a defilement of Tieg's creations, or wisely suggesting that she not waste time standing around, but to be careful when she entered. All of those were things Terra might have said. If she had been here. But she wasn't. Noa held back a shudder as a different smell washed over her from the interior of the Sim-Seru. That of putrified meat that had been kept closed up for far too long. It was an overpowering odor that made her want to throw up the Berries she had just eaten, and thinking about how part of that stench was produced by the bodies of people, perhaps even her own mother and father... She pushed this aside. She couldn't stop here. Not now. She was strong. Strong enough to face the past, present, and future, like an adult.
Thus, Noa walked forward, climbing over the jagged edge of the Sim-Seru Shell, down into the ruins of the city she was born in. Noa had outgrown most of the impulsiveness and stupidity of youth, but she still gave in to the urge to call out. "Mom! Dad! I'm home!" The echo of her own voice in the darkness was the only answer, as she had known it would be. And yet... All this time, she had been hoping, that somehow, someway... Her parents had still been alive. Judging from the silence that fell within the ruins of Conkram, she was the only living being to come here in the past six years. Sighing, Noa proceeded deeper into the Sim-Seru's interior, looking for that she had been told to find in her dreams.
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