Author's Note: So this is really taking off, I appreciate that. Also I did say I don't do requests but I'd like to add that Dirge of Cerberus was the worst of the FFVII games. Yes I preferred Crisis Core. At least that had some interesting backstory and character development.

Chapter 5: Chocobo and Moogle

I spun in place, quickly slotting the summoning Materia into my pendant I'd gotten for that purpose.

"Shit, shit, shit." I quickly took stock of the situation, mind racing.

The Queen was back.

Pros: Just got my summoning Materia, she was alone now, and the door wasn't reopened yet so I had some time to prepare.

Cons: These things are fucking brutal pardon my...Nibelheimian? Kalmian? Is there a French equivalent on this world? Anyways the Queens are fucking brutal. It's just me, that's another con. I'm a long range fighter, another con. It was an enclosed space, major con combined with the other points.

So I needed a plan.

I could definitely run, I don't think she could follow me fast enough if I grappled down the support pillar.

But I didn't want to run, that felt wrong to me.

Okay, so I needed to reopen the maintenance door and then rush in, at that point I would have a minute to...a minute to…

I grinned, it was perfect.

I hit the button and charged up a Blizzard spell, as soon as the door opened I blasted the Queen in the face as she whirled around to face the noise and immediately juked to the right around an exposed girder.

She gaze out a hissing scream of pain and rage and a huge glob of venomous acid landed right where I had entered the room.

Fifty-five.

I dove through the gap between girders and came up out of my roll with an icy arrow ready to fire right into her exposed underbelly.

Another scream of rage.

Fifty-two.

I had to immediately roll backwards however to dodge the two scythe-like front arms coming down in vicious overhead strikes. My leg cleared the area by only half a second. I bounced up onto my feet and leapt back through the girders like the strafing asshole I was.

Forty-nine.

Damage done, space achieved as she tried to reach through or tear the girders apart before trying to go around, I grasped my new Materia in my hand.

"Chocobo and Moogle!" I screamed as mana from the Lifestream swirled in the Materia.

"Wark! Kupo!" It burst outwards and coalesced into two forms over in the clearer portion of the room.

A strange almost white rabbit like creature with a puff-ball topped antennae on its head riding a giant ostrich-sized chicken-like creature.

Immediately the Moogle, Mog, began harassing the Queen with low-grade spells while the Chocobo took care of mobility and occasionally slashing the beast with its taloned feet.

Forty.

I immediately began slowly falling back to the door, firing arrows around my Summons at the Queen as I went.

We were slowly whittling her down and now I was safe enough that once the timer went off I could just step through the door as it closed.

Thirty-five.

The Queen knocked the Chocobo flying backwards and she came barreling towards me.

"Moogle Blast!" I yelled out as I dove behind a crate, just in time for her blades to impale the box instead of my body.

She shrieked as a purple colored Fira-level explosion rocked her back, turning around she hissed at my Summons.

Thirty.

"And run!" I said to myself under my breath as I took off for the other side of the room, baseball sliding behind another crate.

"Shit shit shit..." I popped up from cover and let another arrow fly. I was now on the wrong side of the room from the door I needed to get through.

Twenty-five.

I used just a bit more of my mana, I didn't have much to start with, to fling another Blizzard spell into the distracted side of the creature's face.

She shrieked and turned to glare at me before getting body checked by my charging Chocobo.

I really wanted to get a real life battle Chocobo like in the FFXIV MMO. I could get it armor. Maybe if I lived past Midgar in the story I'd do exactly that.

Oh shit, focus, I thought to myself as I made another dive between the girders as the Queen muscled her way over to my side of the room.

Nineteen.

She had wisened up, she had feinted following me and then jumped to her left to block my exit from the miniature alcove created by the girders.

"Oh...hi there, Chocobo Kick!" I commanded my Summons and with an insane burst of speed the Chocobo rocketed in feet first and sent the Queen, confused by the new level of speed, sideways a half dozen meters into the far wall.

"Thanks!" I called out as I made my way over to the exit.

Ten.

Nine.

The Queen shrieked again and stood back up rushing towards me in rage.

The timer on my Summons was apparently out too, as they began to glow and suddenly a wave of dozens of Chocobos blitzed the Queen into another wall through a stack of crates.

Five.

The Summons faded. I was almost there.

Three.

So was the Queen, I kicked my feet out and slid through her grasping blades and skidded through the open door.

One.

Just as the Queen stuck her head through the door it slammed shut, decapitating her and covering me in nasty fiend gunk.

"Gross," I griped as I stood up and tried to clean myself off a little bit.

Not all that bad however, I thought to myself, I was alive, hadn't really taken any hits other than some bruises from my acrobatics, and the thing was dead!

I rubbed my shoulder where I'd hit a wall as I rolled back from one of the Queen's strikes. I was going to need a good night sleep and maybe to knock back a potion right before bed.

I certainly didn't feel up to making it all the way back to the Sector Seven Slums today, Sector Five Slums were the closest to me over here under the Sector 4 Plate so I'd head down the pillar and over that way.