This is my first fan fiction so be honest with reviews, basically Garland's spirit refuses to give up on his mission and comes back for Zidane in hope of making him become his angel of death. I know I'll probably suck but I need to do something to keep me sane with all this coursework. I would like to thank shadow for encouraging me to start writing this. Thank you ^_^.
Disclaimer: these characters don't belong to me (sigh) I could never think of things this good. Please don't sue all I have at the moment is a lot of blank paper what my work is suppose to be on.
A soul for the angel of death
The blue light surrounding him hurt Zidane's eyes like in so many of his faint memories. He tried to close his eyes tightly in hope of easing the pain its brightness brought to him but it seemed to be no different. He looked within the light not knowing what else to do when he suddenly began to hear someone calling out to him.
"Come, my angel of death. It is time you completed the mission you were created for." From beyond the light Garland stepped forward smiling with a look of hunger on his face. "Kuja has been destroyed and now it is your turn to replace him as you were always meant to."
"No!" Zidane yelled. "Terra's gone; you can't use me to destroy Gaia in order to merge them together!" At this Garland merely laughed gazing around him and outstretching his hands like a child trying to fly.
"You remember so little of what I taught you, but you will soon remember once my plan begins. There is no hope for your friends now, they will die before this is over and I will make sure it is you who will take their lives if you defy me any longer."
"Leave us alone, there is nothing for you here. Why don't you be a good little ghost and disappear?" Zidane desperately ran at him only to find he went straight through feeling a sudden chill. Another cold laugh escaped Garland's lips.
"Soon Zidane, you will be mine."
"No! I'll never help you!" Zidane yelled covering his eyes helplessly as the light grew impossibly brighter. "I'll never help you!"
"Zidane! Zidane wake up!" Zidane quickly sat up greeted by the worried gaze of Dagger as she sat by him gently stroking his cheek. "Another nightmare?" Zidane went red realising she must have heard him all the way from her room and had come to check on him.
"Yeah, I dreamt that you and Quina were married and you were trying to French kiss, it was awful!" He told her grinning, she sighed with a look of disgust on her face.
"Zidane I'm serious. It's been three months since you came back and every night you wake up screaming about 'never helping' someone. You can tell me what's wrong you know."
"It's nothing, don't worry yourself about it." He gently kissed her on the cheek and was moving towards her lips when the door suddenly opened and Steiner ran in, sword out ready to strike.
"What's going on, I heard screaming." Even though it was six in the morning he had his armour on.
"Gee, rusty do you ever take that armour off?"
"Was it you who caused the queen to scream? I'll hang you by your tail in the town square!"
"Are you saying I scream like a girl?"
"T-that was you?" Steiner asked turning red. "Forgive me my queen, I didn't mean to make such a hasty accusation."
"Let's just forget it and get some breakfast." Dagger cut in already heading toward the door. "Coming Zidane?"
"I need to go into town." He said quickly, smiling apologetically.
"Okay, but make sure you're back for when Vivi and Mikoto arrive."
"Fine."
"Don't be late!" She called to his retreating form as he left the room. She sighed knowing all too well that he was always late for everything.
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Zidane headed towards Ruby's theatre knowing he was already late to meet Blank; he began to run and almost knocked a hippo kid over. When he finally reached it he was ten minutes late.
"Zidane, there you are. You sure are late, I've been waiting ages!"
"I'm not that late! Did you get it?"
"Of course I did, I said I would didn't I?" He handed Zidane a small box and he quickly glanced inside, it was perfect.
"Thanks Blank." He said handing over the agreed price, he'd been saving up ever since he returned from the lifa tree and had finally earned enough to buy it.
"So when are you gonna ask her?"
"Tonight, everyone is coming and a big feast is coming soon. Vivi and Mikoto are coming from the Black Mage Village. I've already arranged everything."
"When are they arriving?"
"This afternoon."
"Better not be late then."
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"Where is he?" Steiner asked furiously as Vivi and Mikoto's flight landed before them.
"He's late." Dagger said simply no anger heard in her voice. "It's just how he is." It wasn't until Vivi and Mikoto had stepped off the airship that Zidane came running towards them with his tail dragging behind him on the floor. As he neared them his tail somehow wrapped itself around his legs and sent him falling face down on the floor near Dagger's feet.
"Ouch." Zidane whined.
"Are you okay?" She asked pulling him to his feet. "What happened to your tail?"
"That's the reason I'm late. When I was in town I accidentally knocked into this hippo kid…
"His name is Hippaul." Vivi told him. "I race him sometimes."
"Really? Well I hope you beat him all the time because that little twit as revenge stepped on my tail really hard and now it won't even move anymore. I think it's broken."
"Does it hurt?" Dagger asked as Zidane carefully picked up his tail and held it in both hands.
"It did at first but now its gone kind of numb." He emphasized the point by dropping it watching the tip hit the floor with a far-off look on his face.
"Maybe you should get it cut off!" Steiner said unsympathetically.
"No way!" You are not cutting my tail off! Without it I can't do back-flips!" Zidane quickly grabbed his tail and tied it around his waist so that no-one could get to it.
"Zidane calm down, no-one's going to chop it off." Dagger said glaring warningly at Steiner. "Steiner, will you send a soldier to Treno to bring Doctor Tot?"
"Yes, my Queen." Steiner replied saluting and then running off with his armour rattling away.
"You know it will grow back if they cut it off?" Mikoto said with a smirk.
"I know, but have you actually had it done? It's agony; not to mention when it starts to grow back again."
"Exactly when did this happen? It wasn't in Bran Bal."
"It was when I first joined Tantalus." That was all he would say on the matter and both Dagger and Mikoto knew better than to question him further. They walked back to the castle which had been rebuilt bigger than before now containing enough guest rooms for everyone.
"Maybe we should cancel the big feast," Dagger said, "if you're going to be in pain all night there's no point in making you sit around."
"No!" Zidane said a little too hastily. "I mean…Quina has been preparing all day, there's no point wasting the food now. Anyway like I said it's just gone numb, the worse that could happen is I fall from lack of balance."
"Okay," Dagger said eyeing him suspiciously, "but I don't think it should go on too long." As they continued to head back to the castle Zidane trailed behind trying to hide a smile.
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"I'm afraid I can't do anything for it Mr. Tribal, the best thing to do is cut it off."
"No way!" Zidane yelled moving away from Doctor Tot
"Judging by what I've seen it will grow back in abut a week, I can also see it has already done so before become slightly longer because of it."
"I know," Zidane whined, "but it hurts."
"Well unless you want to have a dead tail you have no choice." Zidane winced at the comment but slowly began unsheathing his dagger and walked out of the room towards his own.
"He wouldn't, would he?" Steiner asked alarmed.
"He would." Dagger told him as they heard a far-off scream of pain.
Sorry don't kill me! There is a good reason why I made Zidane do that honest! Well please review and tell me how much I suck at this ^_^ oh and there's something I want to ask, do the others know about Zidane being made to destroy Gaia and that Kuja's his brother? I know he told Dagger some of it but I don't know about the rest. Please help me out and then I can write more faster. ^_^