Twisted Teeth
Dedicated to Bonita Brewer.
I do not own Final Fantasy VIII. I merely wish to write a story using the characters.
The sky was growing darker. She could feel it in her bones. The wind was blowing relentlessly with an air of temptation. Creatures were out there, their yellow eyes staring through her body. She despised them.
"Come and get me," she tempted through clenched teeth. She drew out her sword and ran her index finger over the helm. The blood ran red, like the anger in her heart.
"Give it back to me," she breathed.
The wind said nothing. She felt like she was being watched.
"I'll kill you!"
Her name was Quistis. She was a demon slayer.
In the world she lived in, demons were an abundant evil. They took the souls of children, and ate their hearts.
Quistis was not alone. There was an accomplice with her: Seifer. He was a war criminal, and a long time outsider of society.
No one would miss him if he were dead.
During the war he committed a number of atrocities. He took the lives of others and served a dark sorceress. In their eyes he deserved to die.
However, he managed to find a way to escape, and made his way there, to the land of safety. It wasn't exactly a land of safety. It was just a place where Quistis could harbor him without consequences. She was a professor after the war. Then the demons started to appear, children starting dying and people stopped having children. There was no need for education anymore.
The world was in an extreme state of despair. There was no hope for anyone anymore. The population was decreasing. There were more elders than children…the demons made sure of that. If things continued in this direction there would be no future for mankind.
So society invented demon slayers. People who would volunteer for money to kill the demons before they could harvest any more children. It was a job few wanted, and a job that had the most alluring pay. Quistis lost her job and was practically broke, Seifer was a war criminal with the death penalty hanging over his head. They decided to merge together and make a team. Together they would slay the demons that were killing the children. And in return would get some of their sanity back.
They were bound by an unspeakable love for one another. This love would one day show it's in the strangest of ways.