At Midgar, the gang quickly tracked down Weiss and Nero. Taking care of them immediately without any worries.
After a couple of hours of cleaning up the mess in Midgar. They've managed to restore the landscape a bit, but it would take a few months to rebuild the forests once again.
"Hey, anybody seen Alexandra? She's been missing for some time now." Aerith noticed. "Yeah, we gotta tell them that Scarlet is out of critical condition. And Tifa is waiting for them." Cloud commented.
"I think they're in Wutai, they have a separate house there right? Let's go and see how Ramiel is doing. He needs to know that we've taken care of everything." Vincent suggested.
"Wait, I can feel something from the south. The white Materia is resonating with something there. It might be the black Materia. I'll go with a team there and check." Ifalna looked at Vincent.
"Then let's go, you guys check how they're doing." Vincent looked at the others and they nodded.
The group travelled to Wutai and they tracked Alexandra down. "Wait... I can't feel her emotions. She's so muted..." Aerith noticed something wrong and they quickly went to her.
They opened the door and saw Alexandra on the floor. She just stared in empty space and her eyes looked like they were dead.
"Alex-nee, what happened?" Aerith went up to her and shaked her shoulders. Alexandra's limp body just went back and forth, completely unresponsive to anything that they did.
"Ramiel's missing... What the hell happened?" Zack frowned and Aerith closed her eyes, concentrating on checking where he was.
She then gasped, feeling his soul in the lifestream. "He... He returned to the lifestream." Aerith was shocked to her core.
The other two were surprised and couldn't fathom how could that happen. They sat there in silence for a few minutes and stared at Alexandra that hasn't blinked even once.
Her overwhelming strength that they could always feel leaking from her was gone. She was unmoving and was like braindead.
"S-she must've seen him go. We need to get her back to Midgar. She won't be able to take care of herself like this." Zack suggested and they went back to Midgar with her in tow.
They laid her on a bed, but she looked like a dead person. She wasn't even breathing, her body completely shut down. The augments and Mako inside her keeping her going and maintaining homeostasis.
The trio discussed what they could do, but they didn't have a single idea. Everybody knew that Alexandra would burn the world for Ramiel. And they don't know anyone that could help with what she's going through right now.
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At the lifestream, Ramiel of course fought back and didn't get himself fuse with the lifestream.
"Shit, it's trying to coat to me like some tar. It wants to absorb me." He resisted the lifestream's effort in trying to fuse him back to the planet because of the large amount of Mako he had.
He was getting overwhelmed by the lifestream and thought fast. Using the abundant energy around him, he tried opening up a portal to riftwalk. But the lifestream messed with his calculations.
"Shit! It's spiralling out of control!" He tried correcting it, but the lifestream doubled down on its efforts to absorb him. And space is connected with another part of the universe, time.
He got sucked inside and with him struggling to not enter it, he took a part of the lifestream with him. Though the portal still took him and he was sent through space and time.
Ramiel travelled in the void between worlds and it took his all to protect his ego. The void was a realm of pure nothingness that would turn him just the same.
Looking around in a hurry, he saw a stream and he immediately made a decision. "Better than nothing!" With a leap of faith, he went to the stream and like a current, it took his soul somewhere for a ride.
With all the tumbling and exhaustion, he lost consciousness. Hoping that it would take him to safety somewhere.
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At a certain island, a certain girl that had a staff was undergoing a ritual. "Hey Tidus, look at this." A muscly man with orange hair pulled a tanned blond teen.
"I can't see if you don't let go of me Wakka, you ass." Tidus pried his arm off and watched the girl that was in a little circle platform.
Ramiel who was unconscious woke up and felt something. He is resonating with something. "What in the world is that?" He felt someone calling out to him.
He couldn't understand the language, but it was a girl that was like beckoning to him. "Where the hell am I?" He looked around and it was a scenic place with glittering lights and flowers everywhere.
"The lifestream? There's so much more Mako here. And it isn't trying to do anything to me." He raised a brow.
Back at the island, the girl tilted her head and was concerned. "Yuna, what happened?" A woman of many belts went up to her, sensing that something was wrong.
"Lulu, I don't know... No Aeons responded to my summoning." Yuna looked down on the ground and thought she was a failure as a summoner.
"Hey, hey. I think you should try again. Maybe it was just a fluke." Wakka cheered her up and Yuna nodded.
"You're right, I will try again." She went to the platform once again and concentrated. With a bit more oomph into it, she called for her first summon called Aeons.
Ramiel felt the tingle once again and heard a voice inside his head. "Who the fuck is that? Whatever, I better check." He gave in and let the summoning take him. Though he forgot one thing, he was naked.
He created a physical form, but it was definitely feeling weaker than his peak. He then fell from the sky and tumbled in the sky. "Wait, my control is messed up, but I have wings!" He flapped them to take control.
Though he still crashed a bit too hard on the ground and landed on his back. "Ugh, fuck me. I feel terrible." He sat up and saw that a group of people was staring at him.
"What?" He raised a brow and Wakka put a hand over Yuna's eyes. Lulu's eyes slowly went below and he followed her line of sight.
"Oh, I'm goddamned naked. Great, what a nice first impression." He stood up and stretched a bit, like he just had a nice nap. He then snapped his fingers and donned a black trench coat like his uniform with SOLDIER.
The guy with orange hair started talking, but he couldn't understand them. "Oh man, another language." Ramiel sighed and went up the lady with many belts.
She was just at his chest level and she was clearly staring right at the muscles in front of her eyes. "Eyes up here lady, but I guess you can't understand me." He poked her forehead and rummaged for their language for a few seconds.
The people started worrying due to confusion and seeing a human Aeon. Thinking he was hostile, Wakka was about to charge at him. But he finished downloading their language.
"Hello, where am I?" He asked Yuna as he got a feel on her energy signature and she was the one that called for him.
"Ahhh... You're in Besaid..." She was still confused and just stared at him. Ramiel nodded and started brooding, thinking of where the hell he was. Besaid wasn't in the world map at all. And he didn't know their language.
"Hello, I am Yuna. A summoner, you are my first Aeon, can I know your name?" She walked up to him. Excited that she had her first summon. (pic)
"I'm Ramiel, Yuna huh. Where have I heard that name before..." He thought hard, but he can't remember. So he shrugged and thought that it must be unimportant.
"Yuna, is this guy really an Aeon? I mean, he has wings and all. But he doesn't really look like one. Though he is huge." Wakka whispered to Yuna.
"Yeah, he's huge." Lulu commented with a deadpan and Ramiel raised a brow at her. "Thanks."
"Umm, but what do you do?" Tidus went up to Ramiel and was curious on what an Aeon can do.
"Uhh, make stuff explode?" He wasn't sure what to answer and scratched his head in confusion. 'What did I get myself into? It seems like they're expecting something from me.'
"Yuna, Ramiel has tons of magic. Can you feel it? I am Lulu by the way." The lady with the belts introduced herself. (pic)
"Yeah, he's strong! I am so lucky I could get a strong Aeon as my first summon." Yuna was happy and Ramiel knew something was up.
"Wait a minute, your summon? Can you explain to me what's happening here? I'm kinda lost. I'm not a summon you know." He squinted his eyes.
"You're an Aeon right? Yuna, you created a mental link with Ramiel?" Lulu looked at Yuna and she nodded, she could feel his confusion and agitation.
Ramiel stared right at Yuna and he had a certain fondness for the girl out the bat. Which was suspicious.
"Are you guys slavers? I don't think so, but I don't like them." He created a nether blade and they felt their skin crawl from the amount of magic he was exuding.
"No! No. I am a summoner that is going to go for a pilgrimage. Aeons are physical realizations of Fayth and summoners ask for help from Aeons in order to aid them in their journey." Yuna explained and Ramiel thought that they looked too friendly anyways.
"I guess you were asking for help and I answered the call huh. Fine, but can you explain to me in detail on what's this pilgrimage and other things." He looked at Yuna and thought she could explain things best.
"I'll be happy to. Please join us for some lunch, we'll explain everything there." Yuna smiled at him and Ramiel nodded.
The group went to a pretty tribal looking house and Ramiel was being stared at by Lulu. "Ahem, I won't show you my Excalibur again." Ramiel coughed, noticing her intense stare.
"I don't quite still understand what you are... You are too, human." She was quite hung up on his mystery and Ramiel thought it would be good to not tell them that he isn't what they thought he was.
"But isn't that guy an Aeon? If what Yuna said is right, then he's another one." Ramiel pointed at Tidus.
"Him? An Aeon?" Wakka laughed and Tidus glared at Wakka. "Ramiel, what do you mean?" Yuna looked at him with intrigue and he decided that Tidus might have a special mission being undercover or something.
"No, nothing. He just felt similar to me. So I thought he was an Aeon." Ramiel drank some water and changed the subject.
"So, can you tell me more about yourself guys?" He flawlessly did the forbidden move and smiled at them, passing the charisma check.
"I'm Wakka, I'm Besaid's premiere blitzball coach and number one player." Wakka introduced himself, Tidus raised a brow at him.
"I'm Tidus, nice to meet you Ramiel." He looked right at him and thought of taking to him later. Deep inside, he noticed that Ramiel knew what was happening to him.
"I am Lulu as you know, I'm a black mage." She was curious on what his powers were. As the netherblade felt like it could cut them by just staring at it.
"Well, nice to meet you too. I'm Ramiel, an Aeon I guess. Yuna, if we have a mental link. Then do you know my abilities?" He was intrigued of the mental link and he could feel the spells she could cast.
"I don't know, what I do know is your skills are vast." She furrowed her brows, thinking of all the things he could do. But she can't visualize it in her mind.
'Hmmm, I guess that's better than her knowing everything about me.' "What about this pilgrimage. What's its purpose?" Ramiel squinted his eyes a bit and thought it sounded important if they needed Aeons and summons for it.
"We'll go to the temples of Yevon and get more of the Aeons so we could fight Sin." Yuna explained and she was determined.
Ramiel just listened and thought that he needed to know more about that Sin later. "Who are you going with?"
"You of course. Wakka, Lulu, and another person will be my guardians for the pilgrimage. I hope we'll get along Ramiel." Yuna smiled at him and he gave a little smile back.
"Please continue your little lunch. I need to think about some things." He stood up and went for a walk.
"Hey, Wakka. Don't you like want to follow him or something?" Tidus suggested and he nodded after thinking for a bit.
"Rude, as expected of boys." Lulu rolled her eyes and thought they should leave the Aeon alone.
"I don't think that's a good idea." Yuna commented. She was curious about Ramiel, but it wasn't nice to spy on people. Especially an Aeon, which are considered to be sacred.
"But aren't you like intrigued to know more about him? He's an enigma, no Aeon has ever been recorded to look so human. He has wings and his eyes are slitted, but that's about it ya." Wakka reasoned and Lulu nodded.
"He might be rude Yuna, but Wakka is right." She was a guardian once, and she has never seen an Aeon like him. And he didn't just look human, he acted and conversed like one too.
"Uhhh, I guess. But only for a little okay?" Yuna nodded and they sought him out.
Ramiel was pacing around and thought of his situation. "I'm definitely not in the Gaia I know... This place is different. The air is different, the culture." He concluded that the portal he got sucked in sent him to another place entirely.
"Wait a minute... Aeons, Yuna, Tidus. I am in Spira! How the hell did I get here? Spira is thousands of years before final fantasy 7..." Ramiel went wide eyed.
"And that Sin Yuna was talking about. Is it some kind of religious symbol? The people here are obviously religious. And Yuna is an important person here." Ramiel decided to follow them for now.
"I only read about some snippets of lore for Spira..." Ramiel sighed, thinking that he should've at least read a bit more in the past.
"It has been so long, now I remember. That Sin is a flying whale or something with disgusting eyes. I think we need to beat it right?" He tried remembering the plot. Ramiel then decided to just leave it for his future self for now.
He started looking for rocks and began piling them up. Making a little tombstone, he engraved Scarlet's name on it and made a grave.
Kneeling in front of it, he looked at it for a long time. "I won't forget, Scar." He closed his eyes and prayed that she will be at peace.
Ramiel tried his mental connection with Alexandra. But there was nothing. "Damn, I can't contact her. I hope she's alright... Stay strong Alex, I'm going to find a way to get back."
He sighed, standing up. "I know you're there, come out." Ramiel stated calmly and the group that was spying panicked.
"S-should we apologize?" Yuna asked the others as she gulped nervously. But before they could, her other guardian, a blue anthropomorphic lion looking guy with a broken horn appeared with a polearm.
He pointed his polearm at Ramiel and he raised a brow. "You wish to check what I can do?" Ramiel felt that the guy didn't have any malicious intent and he gave a small nod.
"Sure, then. I can entertain you for a bit." Ramiel gave a lazy shrug and gestured for him to come.
The lion man roared and started attacking, he was obviously a seasoned warrior, but for Ramiel. He looked like he was trying to poke him with a stick gently with how slow he was.
"Yuna, shouldn't we try and stop this?" Lulu looked at the summoner and Yuna thought she was right. "Wait, we should let them duke it out for a bit." Wakka could feel that they'll see something special.
Ramiel just stood in place and dodged everything in a hair's breadth. "Hah, I think you should know now, right?" He looked at the lion man and he nodded with a frown.
"Woah, he just talked him down and dodged his every attack." Tidus was amazed, he thought that he would be full of holes by now if he was in Ramiel's place.
"You guys, stop hiding. You know that spying on people is rude right?" Ramiel looked towards the hiding place of the three and they slowly stood up from the bushes.
"We're sorry, we were just curious about you." Yuna bowed immediately and the others apologized as well. "You guys are like kids, what am I going to do with you. Powers shouldn't be used lightly you know?" Ramiel sighed.
"Well, Yuna doesn't know what you can do. So we wanted to know if you were going to use your powers or something." Wakka reasoned and Ramiel thought that was a good point.
He thought of what to show and was inclined in messing with them. But it won't be good if they get scared of him.
"Then how about I show you something cool." He pointed his arm at them and made them fly. "Woah... Woah!" Tidus started swimming in the air, but he didn't move.
Ramiel started giving them a coaster ride by slowly putting them higher and higher. "Ummm. Can we go down now?" Lulu looked down and saw that they were starting to rise to uncomfortable levels.
"Go higher? Sure." Ramiel accelerated them to the sky and suddenly cut off his telekenises. They all screamed for their lives.
Before they dropped to the ground, he softened their landing and Tidus immediately released the contents of his stomach with Wakka.
Lulu and Yuna trembled and their knees gave out. "Y-you're crazy!" Lulu glared at him and he smirked. "You wanted a sample of my skills right? Want some more?"
Yuna immediately shook her head. "Okay, good. I'll use it when the situation seems necessary. You don't want to see me use it willy nilly, trust me."
He made them float behind him because they can't stand up yet. The group then went back to the village.
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Thanks for reading everyone, and yes he is in final fantasy 10's spira.