In the beginning there was the crystal, which brought life, planets,
everything in existence. The Summoners learned how to summon the great
power of Anima from the crystal. However, the Summoners were afraid of
Anima's power, as it was truly immense and difficult to control.
When they discovered this, the split the crystal into four jewels, and they were spread throughout Gaia in hope that Anima would never be summoned again.
Little did they know that Anima was not the only spirit that was contained within the jewels. When the crystal was split rumour has it that four spirits were created, each for one jewel. Alexander was claimed to be the spirit who resided in the jewel of Alexandria.
Many myths and tales have been told of these spirits, but very few have believed them to be true.
However, some rumours are truer than they seem.
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Garland had been striving away at his latest project. He had gathered cells from Gaian life forms and was hoping to breed a powerful warrior, a warrior to help Kuja fulfil his task.
However, so far his experiments on combining living cells to generate his warrior were not going very well. The cells he had experimented with either not join together successfully or create a life form that was too weak to even live. Qu cells seemed to ingest other cells when combined. Cells from monsters destroyed other cells and would not combine very easily.
Garland was about to give up. He tried one last experiment: some Burmecian cells combining with some human cells. He set up the machinery and the cells begun to thrive and join. After several months the cells had developed enough to form a rather unusual looking baby.
Garland stopped and carefully took out the newly created baby. It looked rather odd: It looked fairly human, only it had rat's ears, a rat's tail, a half-snout and a small amount of fur.
Garland then placed the baby into a different machine. The machine had several numbers on it. It was a machine used to read battle power and other battle aspects. The machine came to life when the child was placed inside and the numbers came to a stop.
"Maybe it was a mistake to try and combine cells from Gaia." Garland thought to himself. "This one is the only one that has survived and it has a battle power much lower than Kuja's when he was created. I don't have any use for this weakling."
Garland then took the baby out of the machine. The baby's innocent eyes looked into Garland's cold stare. Garland then gave a weak smile. "I suppose I shouldn't let you go completely to waste." He then took the baby into Bran Bal and towards a giant blue airship with a lava coloured eye underneath.
The invincible stood right before Garland and the half-breed child. Garland spoke some words in Terran before the two were teleported in a blue flash into the airship.
Garland started the airship engines before turning to look at the child again. "You're going to a new home. You may not be as strong as Kuja, but you are still a fairly powerful warrior. You should be able to send me some souls in a life on Gaia." He then turned to the screen on the Invincible as the engines had reached full power.
"Take us to the settlement of Burmecia!" Garland said to the device. A cursor highlighted the area of Burmecia on a map of Gaia and the airship began to move.
The two were soon outside the gates of the rainy city. Garland had programmed the Invincible to land outside the city. It was night on Gaia, and the Burmecians were sleeping in their homes. Garland sneaked into the city, starting by using a float spell to glide over the wall as the gates to the city were locked shut. He looked around to look for a suitable home for his baby "warrior".
He was approaching the castle; he had entered the area of Burmecia where the Dragon Knights lived. If his child were to send souls to the Iifa tree, he would have to become a Dragon Knight. Growing up with a Dragon Knight would probably ensure it.
He eventually came to a house and smiled. The name "Fratley" was carved on the stone door. Garland had read about the name "Fratley" when researching in Duagerreo for places to obtain cells. "Fratley" was one of the most powerful Dragoon families with each generation producing a strong Dragon knight.
"Perfect." Garland whispered to himself. He placed the baby in front of the door and knocked. He then fled and was soon out of sight.
Sir Lion-heart Fratley woke with a grumble to the knock. "What on Gaia?" he moaned before forcing himself up and putting on a dressing gown and grabbing a small candle and lighting it. He combed his clawed fingers through his long brownish blonde hair as he shuffled towards the door, still moaning and grumbling at being woken up in the middle of the night and opened it.
He looked around rather angrily, his blue eyes staring harshly onto the rainy streets. He thought this was some sick kind of joke. The baby then started gurgling noises which turned Lion-hart's attention to him.
Lion-heart gasped in disbelief. Who would abandon a poor child? He picked the baby up and got a shock when he looked at it more closely. It was not a normal Burmecian baby; its snout was nowhere near as long as a Burmecian's and it had less fur than regular Burmecian child. He also spotted that this child had five fingers, not the normal four of a Burmecian.
Lion-heart quickly came to the conclusion it was half Burmecian. It shared traits of a human, so the child was a crossbreed of the two. "How could this be?" Lion-heart thought to himself. Burmecians were supposed to be unable to breed with humans.
Lion-heart decided to leave the question for now. He covered the child in some old garments and laid him on the suite in their living room. The baby quickly fell asleep, after Lion-hart was sure the child had settled, he returned to bed.
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Lion-heart's biological son, referred to as "Junior" by Lion-heart and "Fratley" to everyone else, was the first to wake. He was only three years old, but he still managed to clamber out of his bed and walk around the place, ready for a new day.
He climbed down the stairs of the house and was on his way to the kitchen when he heard a gargle and some other unusual sounds coming out of the living room.
Fratley became curious, and opened the living room door rather cautiously. He walked in and looked around to see what was making the noise. He eventually turned to the suite and stared at the half breed baby laying there.
Fratley walked towards the suite, eager to get a closer look. As he peered in at the baby, who was snoring peacefully, he discovered something that freaked him out. This baby had five fingers! It had too little fur to be a true Burmecian newborn. He had heard stories of monsters and demons that would take the form of others to deceive people, and thus Fratley came to a rather simple conclusion.
"MONSTER!!!" Fratley screamed at the top of his lungs before rushing up the stairs to alert his parents. "MONSTER! MONSTER! MONSTER!"
Lion-heart leapt onto his feet and grabbed his spear from the wall. His wife April also woke up quickly and followed Lion-heart, who had dashed into the corridor to search for the beast.
"Where?!" Lion-heart asked Fratley concerned. Fratley ran back down the stairs with Lion-heart following. Fratley opened the door and pointed into the living room still shouting "Monster!" as loud as he could.
Lion-heart dashed into the room, looking around for the "monster".
"THERE! THERE!" Fratley shouted, pointing to the baby. "MONSTER! MONSTER!"
Lion-heart looked towards the child and breathed a sigh of relief. He then turned to Fratley. "Calm down junior, there's no monster."
Fratley stopped bellowing his lungs out and just looked confused at his father and the baby, who was now crying from being woken up. April came down the stairs and entered looking worried.
"It's alright darling." Lion-heart called out. "Fratley was just getting confused."
April's green eyes then turned to the baby that lay crying on the sofa. "Where did that baby come from?" she asked turning to face Lion-heart.
"It was abandoned on the doorstep last night. That was who it was when the bell rang." Lion-heart answered.
"Who would do such a thing?" April said before walking up and taking the baby to comfort it. April was a very kind, caring and gentle woman who loved nearly every living soul. "Hey, it's..." she started as she noticed while cradling the baby. She was interrupted by Lion-heart before she could finish.
"...a half breed." Lion-heart finished. "I suppose we should take care of it, it obviously doesn't have a family that cares for it."
"I suppose so." April agreed. "What are we going to call him though?"
The family then debated over what to call their adopted son. Many names came up, but eventually Lion-heart came up with the final name that the family agreed to.
"Frato. We will call him Frato."
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Disclaimer: I do not own FF9 or any characters or locations in it. If I did, there would be a FF9-2. Frato, Lion-heart and April are mine, sort of.
When they discovered this, the split the crystal into four jewels, and they were spread throughout Gaia in hope that Anima would never be summoned again.
Little did they know that Anima was not the only spirit that was contained within the jewels. When the crystal was split rumour has it that four spirits were created, each for one jewel. Alexander was claimed to be the spirit who resided in the jewel of Alexandria.
Many myths and tales have been told of these spirits, but very few have believed them to be true.
However, some rumours are truer than they seem.
---
Garland had been striving away at his latest project. He had gathered cells from Gaian life forms and was hoping to breed a powerful warrior, a warrior to help Kuja fulfil his task.
However, so far his experiments on combining living cells to generate his warrior were not going very well. The cells he had experimented with either not join together successfully or create a life form that was too weak to even live. Qu cells seemed to ingest other cells when combined. Cells from monsters destroyed other cells and would not combine very easily.
Garland was about to give up. He tried one last experiment: some Burmecian cells combining with some human cells. He set up the machinery and the cells begun to thrive and join. After several months the cells had developed enough to form a rather unusual looking baby.
Garland stopped and carefully took out the newly created baby. It looked rather odd: It looked fairly human, only it had rat's ears, a rat's tail, a half-snout and a small amount of fur.
Garland then placed the baby into a different machine. The machine had several numbers on it. It was a machine used to read battle power and other battle aspects. The machine came to life when the child was placed inside and the numbers came to a stop.
"Maybe it was a mistake to try and combine cells from Gaia." Garland thought to himself. "This one is the only one that has survived and it has a battle power much lower than Kuja's when he was created. I don't have any use for this weakling."
Garland then took the baby out of the machine. The baby's innocent eyes looked into Garland's cold stare. Garland then gave a weak smile. "I suppose I shouldn't let you go completely to waste." He then took the baby into Bran Bal and towards a giant blue airship with a lava coloured eye underneath.
The invincible stood right before Garland and the half-breed child. Garland spoke some words in Terran before the two were teleported in a blue flash into the airship.
Garland started the airship engines before turning to look at the child again. "You're going to a new home. You may not be as strong as Kuja, but you are still a fairly powerful warrior. You should be able to send me some souls in a life on Gaia." He then turned to the screen on the Invincible as the engines had reached full power.
"Take us to the settlement of Burmecia!" Garland said to the device. A cursor highlighted the area of Burmecia on a map of Gaia and the airship began to move.
The two were soon outside the gates of the rainy city. Garland had programmed the Invincible to land outside the city. It was night on Gaia, and the Burmecians were sleeping in their homes. Garland sneaked into the city, starting by using a float spell to glide over the wall as the gates to the city were locked shut. He looked around to look for a suitable home for his baby "warrior".
He was approaching the castle; he had entered the area of Burmecia where the Dragon Knights lived. If his child were to send souls to the Iifa tree, he would have to become a Dragon Knight. Growing up with a Dragon Knight would probably ensure it.
He eventually came to a house and smiled. The name "Fratley" was carved on the stone door. Garland had read about the name "Fratley" when researching in Duagerreo for places to obtain cells. "Fratley" was one of the most powerful Dragoon families with each generation producing a strong Dragon knight.
"Perfect." Garland whispered to himself. He placed the baby in front of the door and knocked. He then fled and was soon out of sight.
Sir Lion-heart Fratley woke with a grumble to the knock. "What on Gaia?" he moaned before forcing himself up and putting on a dressing gown and grabbing a small candle and lighting it. He combed his clawed fingers through his long brownish blonde hair as he shuffled towards the door, still moaning and grumbling at being woken up in the middle of the night and opened it.
He looked around rather angrily, his blue eyes staring harshly onto the rainy streets. He thought this was some sick kind of joke. The baby then started gurgling noises which turned Lion-hart's attention to him.
Lion-heart gasped in disbelief. Who would abandon a poor child? He picked the baby up and got a shock when he looked at it more closely. It was not a normal Burmecian baby; its snout was nowhere near as long as a Burmecian's and it had less fur than regular Burmecian child. He also spotted that this child had five fingers, not the normal four of a Burmecian.
Lion-heart quickly came to the conclusion it was half Burmecian. It shared traits of a human, so the child was a crossbreed of the two. "How could this be?" Lion-heart thought to himself. Burmecians were supposed to be unable to breed with humans.
Lion-heart decided to leave the question for now. He covered the child in some old garments and laid him on the suite in their living room. The baby quickly fell asleep, after Lion-hart was sure the child had settled, he returned to bed.
---
Lion-heart's biological son, referred to as "Junior" by Lion-heart and "Fratley" to everyone else, was the first to wake. He was only three years old, but he still managed to clamber out of his bed and walk around the place, ready for a new day.
He climbed down the stairs of the house and was on his way to the kitchen when he heard a gargle and some other unusual sounds coming out of the living room.
Fratley became curious, and opened the living room door rather cautiously. He walked in and looked around to see what was making the noise. He eventually turned to the suite and stared at the half breed baby laying there.
Fratley walked towards the suite, eager to get a closer look. As he peered in at the baby, who was snoring peacefully, he discovered something that freaked him out. This baby had five fingers! It had too little fur to be a true Burmecian newborn. He had heard stories of monsters and demons that would take the form of others to deceive people, and thus Fratley came to a rather simple conclusion.
"MONSTER!!!" Fratley screamed at the top of his lungs before rushing up the stairs to alert his parents. "MONSTER! MONSTER! MONSTER!"
Lion-heart leapt onto his feet and grabbed his spear from the wall. His wife April also woke up quickly and followed Lion-heart, who had dashed into the corridor to search for the beast.
"Where?!" Lion-heart asked Fratley concerned. Fratley ran back down the stairs with Lion-heart following. Fratley opened the door and pointed into the living room still shouting "Monster!" as loud as he could.
Lion-heart dashed into the room, looking around for the "monster".
"THERE! THERE!" Fratley shouted, pointing to the baby. "MONSTER! MONSTER!"
Lion-heart looked towards the child and breathed a sigh of relief. He then turned to Fratley. "Calm down junior, there's no monster."
Fratley stopped bellowing his lungs out and just looked confused at his father and the baby, who was now crying from being woken up. April came down the stairs and entered looking worried.
"It's alright darling." Lion-heart called out. "Fratley was just getting confused."
April's green eyes then turned to the baby that lay crying on the sofa. "Where did that baby come from?" she asked turning to face Lion-heart.
"It was abandoned on the doorstep last night. That was who it was when the bell rang." Lion-heart answered.
"Who would do such a thing?" April said before walking up and taking the baby to comfort it. April was a very kind, caring and gentle woman who loved nearly every living soul. "Hey, it's..." she started as she noticed while cradling the baby. She was interrupted by Lion-heart before she could finish.
"...a half breed." Lion-heart finished. "I suppose we should take care of it, it obviously doesn't have a family that cares for it."
"I suppose so." April agreed. "What are we going to call him though?"
The family then debated over what to call their adopted son. Many names came up, but eventually Lion-heart came up with the final name that the family agreed to.
"Frato. We will call him Frato."
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Disclaimer: I do not own FF9 or any characters or locations in it. If I did, there would be a FF9-2. Frato, Lion-heart and April are mine, sort of.