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I felt the water around me but I was unconscious, I couldn’t use magic to life myself out. I knew this was the end of me, I opened my eyes only to see another pair of eyes looking at me. They were brown and the woman grabbed me and pulled me to the surface. I coughed up a lot of water as the woman started to walk away and I noticed that the woman was much taller than I and she was wearing high heels that looked like they could kill. I looked up the rest of her scantily clad body and immediately knew from the sight of her ears that she was a Viera. I was stunned did I really fall back into Ivalice? I wanted away from war not in the middle of one between Archades and Dalmasca. I stood to my feet and noticed that my shirt was gone and all I had left were my black boots and my black pants. I shook my hair and began to look around, nothing but a desert; I recognized it though it was the Dalmascan Estersand. I was at the door of Rabanastre practically. I looked to the Viera and asked an apparently very dumb question. “Is the war over?” She looked at me like I had never been to Ivalice before and answered very curtly. “The war has been over for a year now, thanks to us.” I was stunned I had heard that a set of individuals took down the Empire, maybe she was who I thought she was. “Fran?” The Viera looked at me and smiled. “I’m glad you finally recognize me again Rael. Follow me, the queen of Dalmasca would like to speak to you in private and its not safe outside the walls anymore.” I was stunned, Ashe wanted to talk to me?
I followed Fran through the streets of Rabanastre heading to the palace Dalmasca. Everything was so different that what I had heard, people were prospering I didn’t see any orphans stealing as I thought I would. I stepped into the stone palace and was escorted by a Sky Pirate and what seemed like a Knight. I walked into the throne room only to be hugged by Queen Ashe. She pulled back and looked delighted to see me. “Rael we heard that you killed some of the Zodiac, and have great power. We need you here to protect the nation.” My eyes began to water, I felt pathetic. “Lady Ashe, I do not have the power that people think I do for some reason its been locked away in me. All I have is three of my arcane magics, nothing else. I wish I could help but I barely escaped Ultima’s grasp so that she wouldn’t kill me.” The others looked stunned they didn’t know what to say, they obviously thought I would be their savior in all of this. I couldn’t bear to look at the tears in Lady Ashe’s eyes, I looked away and standing in a mirror was not me. My reflection was Arelx, not me. I walked over and noticed that the others had stopped moving as if time had stopped, I looked Arelx in the eyes and asked “What the hell do you want now?” He smiled that ******** grin that I couldn’t stand. “I came to help, of course.” He reached out his hand and pulled me into the mirror. I was finally standing face to face with someone who was apparently me at one time but had changed. I got up the courage and finally asked. “What happened to change me, to you?” Arelx smiled, “You finally understand so I guess its time to explain to you what really is going to happen and maybe I will go away and stop having to baby-sit you all the ******** time.” He held out his hands and I felt something happening to me. I put my hands on my chest and saw all the good and light pulling out of my body and being replaced by my dark memories of the past..
I didn’t know what was going on but I had a sudden rush of memories coming back to me I remembered everything. I remembered about the hidden goddess, the full extent to my powers, and the discovery I had made to be banished to Zanarkand. I gasped as Arelx disappeared, and I was back in front of the mirror and I touched my face and the reflection followed suit. I flexed my fingers and called up a scathe spell and it glowed in my palm with a new found power I had not known in a long time. I mentally flipped through all the spells I could perform and I saw the true nature of the arcana. I knew to flex my powers was to have malicious intent with every spell that I chose. I knew then that I could help Ashe and get what I needed to start a huge uprising to destroy Ultima once and for all. A girl in a white dress walked out of nowhere and stood in front of me and introduced herself. “Hello, Arelx Darkdreamer, I’m Namine its nice to finally be acquainted with you. I hope that one day you can find me again. I’m still wandering for now but when you need me you will be able to find me. Here a gift from me.” She pulled a book out of thin air and handed it to me. It was covered in ancient runes and glyphs. With that Namine faded into the darkness. I knew now that I had become Arelx, and I could never go back I didn’t have a heart anymore. That was the day Rael died, and Arelx began to live again. I looked over out of the palace balcony and saw a monster approaching and I let out a deadly scathe spell as I jumped out of the palace and a sword appeared in my hand and I stabbed the creature in the gut.