Final fantasy 8 word challenge!
For those who don't know a word challenge is where a bunch of words are randomly selected and the writer has to create a short story themed around that particular word. On this website I've met a really awesome person and she is known on here as PromiseInTheRain. This person never fails to make me laugh, she supports me with all of my writing and we've had many conversations about this game, she also hasn't yet posted a fan fiction piece due to her computer and so being huge fans of the Final fantasy 8 game we decided to collaborate. This first chapter is not written by me but by PromiseInTheRain so please make sure to give her the credit she deserves, the word she has been allocated is dream, I really hope that you like it as much as I do…
Dream: (Noun), A strongly desired goal or purpose. A series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.
Verb: Experience dreams during sleep: "I dreamed about her last night"
I need to get something off my chest…
Until recently, I couldn't remember a thing about my childhood. The funny thing is, I didn't even realize or care. Nothing out of the ordinary until someone brought it up.
I had a dream the other night…
It was very enlightening. I dreamed about a sorceress. There was something about this woman of power that, in my dream state, struck me as familiar, a very distant familiarity. I felt that I had been in her presence before, and yet this woman was a complete stranger… Or was she?
Dreams, as they say, are based off of some sort of truth, and I admit, I believe every word of that.
For a mind to create a world completely out of nothing… it's all very unreal. Every dream holds some sort of desire, and underneath that, a memory.
So for me to have seen this woman before makes complete sense. So why is it that I didn't know who she was?
Anyway, more on that later. Back to this dream I had. The woman didn't say or do much at all. All I could remember after waking up, was that she had called me a child and I woke up contemplating the word.
Of course, my first thought was that it was an insult, and that I should shrug it off, but something about that particular word choice hit me deeper.
I tried to think back to my own childhood, but I didn't seem to have any memory of it, nothing at all…
For all I knew, I had just magically dropped in out of nowhere and I knew that couldn't be right!
That's when it hit me, I remembered the woman's face, and very vividly. You tell me, when was the last time you remembered someone from a dream so clearly they could have been standing right in front of you?
I knew I had to have known this woman. I thought long and hard on where I had seen her before and all of that thinking lead up to a single word…
Matron.
Strangely enough with that one word, I started remembering other words. Matron. Sorceress. Edea. Orphan. Garden. Cid…
Nothing made sense, but somehow I just knew they were all connected. So what did I do? I found out everything I could from the Garden Library about Sorceresses.
It took a while, but I finally found a book that mentioned 'Edea.' Soon after that, I found out where I could find her, and in a matter of days, I had escaped to Timber, attacked President Deling, and come face to face with the sorceress.
That was my dream…or half of it anyway.
She made me feel so futile in her presence,like an insignificant pawn, however, my dream was becoming a reality right before my eyes.
I knew everything she was going to say before she said it. She seduced me into coming forward and soon after that I remembered everything.
Sorceress Edea. Matron Edea. She had raised me as a child in an orphanage before I moved to Garden so I could train to become a SeeD under Headmaster Cid. Suddenly everything was crystal clear and for the first time ever my life and purpose made sense.
My mind was my own again, and I understood that Matron was in danger, people were afraid of her because of Adel. The last sorceress, who began the sorceress war that killed so many people.
People would try to kill Matron to stop her from causing another war, and…I couldn't let that happen.
You see, the thing with dreams is, they're always based off of a hidden desire. It's not always easy to tell, in fact, in most cases it takes a completely focused and trained mind to tell the difference between desire and whatever else dreams are made of, but I've finally pieced together what I want out of life.
My name is Seifer Almasy. I want to be a sorceress' knight. It's my dream.
And my dream will become a reality as I protect Edea from the world and Adel's powers…