Note: Warning!! This is a sequel to a FF8 fic I wrote called 'Whatever...', 'You're such a pain!' In which I placed myself, friends and family. If you don't like that sort of thing then BEGONE! I'm sorry if I sound rude but I had it with darn f***ing flames!!!!
If you're still interrested, I highly suggest you read the prequel first so you'll understand better.
Back again with a 14th fanfic!! But this one wasn't in my list of fanfics to write until recently... Someone suggested me to do it and I just couldn't resist the idea... This is for you Ruby Dragon!!
This one will include FFX! How come? Read it! I'm in there also! With new friends! I suggest you first read the prequel, you might enjoy it!! This story starts when Tidus appears in Besaid so that makes this fic a twisted version of FFX. I hope it goes well!!
'Blitzball?', '... Whatever...'
Prologue: Peace is further ahead
I don't know why I decided to write this down... Maybe because I didn't want it to be lost because of the GFs... I'm Carole Marceau, Squall Leonhart's wife. I'm mostly known by this title but I'm also known as the commander of SeeD since Squall became headmaster. I'm also known as one of the SeeD who kicked the Renegades butt! That which is known as The Great Battle in our records happened ten years ago. That battle which nearly cost me my love...
But what I'm about to tell happened after that. Not much people know about it... Only those who were there. That includes me, Squall, my friends and his. We don't talk much about that time because it's still painful to us... But I still don't want it to be lost so here comes what I would call 'my story'... But I'm not talking about me, I mean someone else who struggled to go back home just like we did... and failed. This story starts ten years ago. A week after The Great Battle, there was a party where Squall proposed to me. He didn't want to take the risk of seeing me leave his side again. This story starts the day after as everyone was getting excited with the recent events...
In the cafeteria, everyone was laughing around the soon-to-be-married couple. A girl dressed in tight leather clothing with a short jacket tied on the bottom over a top was smiling widely with joy at her friends. An asian girl wearing the SeeD uniform was hopping around her.
"Carole-chan's getting married! Carole-chan's getting married!" she kept chanting with excitement.
"Come on, Mia-chan! Stop it!" Carole giggled.
She pushed her long brown curly hair back. When she only was a candidate, she used to keep them tied in a ponytail and wear the Candidate's uniform along with glasses which made her look like a real nerd. Now that she was a SeeD, she decided to wear what she wanted: something like Squall.
The young man placed an arm around her shoulders and stole a light kiss from her soft lips. She smiled lovingly at him. The past night was the happiest of her life. The first one was the day Squall told her he shared her feelings on the beach outside Balamb town at night. It was the memory she treasured most. But just thinking she would be his wife was almost overwhelming.
"There's so much to do!!" Selphie exclaimed writing notes on a pad.
The short brown haired girl decided to take care of everything for the wedding. She wanted it to be grand! Something people would remember. Squall and Carole were a little embarrased about it but she was so enthusiastic and serious about it, it was almost a shame to tell her not to do it.
She has been carrying a pad around since then to write everything she could think would be needed.
"Come on, Sephie, drop it for a sec," Irvine said.
With his cowboy outfit, his brown hair tied in a ponytail, and his 6'0", Irvine could get all the girls he wanted but he set his choice on one, his childhood love: Selphie.
"I can't!" Selphie answered him. "I only have two months!"
"It's more than enough!" Quistis exclaimed with a giggle.
The blond haired girl was once Squall's instructor.
"Someone stop her!" Seifer exclaimed. "She'll have Garden turned upside down for this thing!"
"Why were you so eager to do it, Squall?" Audrey asked.
She was Carole's friend and Seifer's girlfriend. Also a member of the disciplinary committee.
"They told you already!" Rachel, Carole's sister interfered. "Squall wants to keep her chained to him forever!"
"Ha! I think they're too young for that," Zell commented.
He was Rachel's boyfriend.
"According to you, anyone's too young to do anything!" Gackt cut in.
He was Squall's best friend since he entered Garden. He was also Miaka's boyfriend.
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you know they already had it?"
Squall and Carole blushed while everyone else stared at them with wide eyes, including Rinoa, Adam, her new boyfriend, and Dave, his cousin and Quistis' boyfriend.
"What?" Rachel exclaimed looking at her sister.
They had it the night before the Great Battle. Carole had been suffering from the side effects of a truth serum invented by Odine which got her blind and deaf for 2 months. But the day after they had it, she was healed. Coincidence or...?
"You couldn't even wait to be married?" a voice asked from behind them.
Everyone looked around to see Laguna standing behind them with a wide smile. He waved.
"Hey guys!"
"Sir Laguna!" Selphie exclaimed with delight.
"Father!" Squall said getting up.
He took Laguna's hand extended to him.
"Congratulations," Laguna said before turning to Carole. "That makes you my daughter-in-law."
"Well, not yet..." Carole said blushing.
"Close enough," Laguna said with a smile. "Whacha guys up to?"
"Get everything ready for the wedding!" Selphie said scribling more notes on her pad.
"Drop that!" Irvine said taking that off her hands.
"Irvy! Give it back!"
Since Selphie was small and Irvine pretty tall, he didn't have trouble keeping it out off her reach. Until she decided to climb him up like a mountain.
"Ow! Okay, okay!" he said giving up.
He handed it back to her and she pressed it against her chest like it was some kind of treasure. Then she stuck her tongue at him and wrote something.
"Irvine's clothing," she said outloud. "Nothing! He'll walk around naked saying: 'I'm a dork!'"
Everyone laughed full heartedly, even Irvine.
Adam got up from his seat and walked to Carole. He and her were best friends for a long time. Since she worked on the Lunar Base with him years ago...
"You seem strange. You grew up."
"Well, lose the one you love and we'll talk about it again."
Adam bit his lips. That's right, a week ago, she really lost Squall. The leader of the Renegades was down but not dead and gave Squall a final blow which killed him. But dragged to the battlefield with the remains of the link she once shared with Squall, Rinoa restored his body, but she no longer had the power to call him back since he was no longer her knight. Carole did it. With the strength of her love for him, he came back.
Adam simply nodded, knowing the memory was painful for her.
"Hey, since when are you wearing Squall's necklace?"
She looked at her chest and took the Griever in her hand.
"Since yesterday. Squall said I should wear it so I would never forget him whatever happens... But I think it's just because he's sweet. He said it's in case we get seperated. He'll look for it however long it might take. Heheh, I think it's just an excuse."
"I think so too. And he got yours?"
She turned to her future husband and saw her own necklace dangling on his chest with each move he made. A silver eagle she received when she was sick. When she went to fight the leader of the Renegades, pretending to be the leader to protect him, she gave it to him and as he was dying, he gave her his. But after, they got them back until the last night.
Her eyes were shining with love. Yes, Adam thought. This is definately the man for her. He'll protect her with his life.
Squall was talking with Laguna and smiling. He was in good terms with his father. They made up for the past years and it occured that Squall really liked Laguna. It does seem that people change over the years.
Rinoa was looking at all that with a smile but she had trouble feeling honest about it. Squall was once her Knight, sworn to protect her. But she ditched him for Adam. She was to blame. She loved Adam a lot and never regreted meeting him. Maybe she just regreted she didn't meet him before she'd fall for Squall.
Dave joined in. He was a fine young man with long brown hair tied in a ponytail. He had glasses and was wearing chinese-like clothing, like a martial artist. But the thing is he was using a sword for weapon, a japanese curved up sword, a katana.
"Are you sure everything will be ready in two months? It's kinda short," he said.
"It will if I get some help!" Selphie exclaimed glancing around.
Laguna said they could always hold it in Esthar since it was big and all, but everyone thought it wasn't such a good idea. With all the monsters roaming around Esthar since the Lunar Cry, Squall and Carole would keep their gunblades under their wedding clothes and just throw everything away to go fight them. Everyone giggled but knew it was true.
But it seemed that it would have to wait...
"Commander! Commander!!!" someone called.
Everyone shut up and looked at the entrance of the cafeteria as a SeeD was running towards Squall and company with fright on his face.
"What's wrong?" Squall asked with a worried frown.
"S...something appeared... out Garden... energy..."
"Wow, calm down first would you? I don't understand a thing!"
The SeeD tried to catch his breath quickly then spoke up with the same fear on his face.
"Right outside Garden... There's an unknown energy field!"
"Where?"
"Where the fight was held."
"Go back there and have a security perimeter delimited. I don't want anyone near this thing until we know what it is! I'm coming right away!"
"Already done, sir! Nida had it done by the time I got here!"
"Good. Tell him I'm coming right away."
The SeeD left and Squall started leaving after him and noticed he was being followed. He turned around and had an amused smile seeing that actually everyone was following him.
"What are you doing?" he asked unable to bury a laugh at the sight.
"What else, stupid?" Zell asked placing a hand on his hip. "We're coming along!"
"You don't have to..." Squall started.
But it was obvious everyone was curious about this. Selphie even dropped her tab and Laguna seemed curious.
Carole stepped forward.
"Are we going or just standing here?"
Squall shrugged and sighed.
"Alright then, let's go investigate."
Everyone was curious but most of them were scared deep inside. Scared that something would happen... again. First Ultimecia, then the Renegades, then what? Even when they'd get married, Carole knew they wouldn't be at peace unless they quit SeeD but she always wanted to be a SeeD so if she'd quit, what else would she do? That was the same for Squall.
When they stepped outside Garden, they could all feel there was something in the air. Something heavy, somewhat threatening.
They walked to the place and saw a bunch of SeeDs and candidates standing there with curiosity. A fence was placed around the area. They had to break through the crowd and when they made it to the center, they were shocked. On the ground, there was some kind of a pond but the content was not water. It was switching colors. Red, purple, blue, white with other colors inside similar to waves. It was moving like waves but only horizontally, not up and down. All moving in the pond and nowhere else. The waves seemed to lose themselves in the grass but it wasn't going anywhere. It was a strong energy.
Squall past over the fence and to Nida standing next to it.
"What is that thing?" Squall asked in a whisper.
"Beats me," Nida answered.
"Powerful energy," Rinoa said as she approached. "I can't figure out who could have done it though..."
"Some soldier from the battle might have put that here?" Dave suggested.
"No, it would have been triggered before," Quistis said taking her chin in her hand.
"I guess so..."
Carole felt a chill up her spine. Since her illness, she seemed to have developped a sharp sixth sense about this kind of things. It proved itself useful during battles but right now she wished it wouldn't be so sharp.
"Nida, tell the headmaster about this," Squall ordered.
"Yes, sir!"
Nida left, leaving only Squall's gang around the mysterious energy pond.
Carole grabbed his sleeve, making him look at her.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't like this... We should leave it there... Please, let's go!"
"Carole?"
Miaka decided to trust her friend's instinct and pulled Gackt on the other side of the fence. Laguna was already there, thinking it wasn't his business.
Through the crowd, a young girl had come to see what was happening. She was curious but also shy surrounded with so many people, but no one seemed to pay attention to her.
Zell had crouched down to the pond.
"Zell, get away from that!" Carole exclaimed.
"Why?" he asked turning to her. "I didn't touch it."
"Seriously, let's lock this thing off and go!!"
Squall never saw her like that so he decided to trust her instincts.
"Alright."
As he started dragging his gang away, the pond seemed to start boiling. Some witnesses were screaming as the substance was coming up like a monster. Squall, Carole and everyone who had a weapon took it.
"What the hell?!" Zell exclaimed.
It was just moving like jelly. Everyone stood on guard, just in case. All of a sudden, the jelly grew even bigger and spread like a giant towell. The SeeDs were astonished.
"What the fuck?" Rachel said.
The other SeeDs started panicking and run around like crazy. The little girl was pushed over the fence in the turmoil.
"Ouch!"
The giant towell of energy suddenly lowered at incredible speed and covered everyone inside the fence perimeter. Screams could be heard from under it.
"Carole-chan!! Squall-san!" Miaka exclaimed with high fear.
"Squall!" Laguna yelled.
"Everyone!" Gackt screamed along.
The energy field suddenly seemed to melt down and disappeared completely, along with everyone that was under.
Miaka fell on her knees, shocked. Gackt's eyes couldn't move off the spot where everyone vanished and it seemed that Laguna's mind was shut off.
"Iie... Minna..." Miaka said with a low trembling voice.
"IIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
All those who were under the energy field: Squall, Carole, Zell, Rachel, Quistis, Dave, Rinoa, Adam, Seifer, Audrey, Selphie, Irvine and a little girl no one knew because she just registered in Garden, were gone. Were they even alive? Who could know? Everything seemed to show they were dead, eaten by this thing, whatever it was... Everyone would think they were dead except Miaka, Gackt and Laguna. They refused to believe it. This thing was energy so it couldn't have eaten them. Maybe more like transport them somewhere else. But where?
Meanwhile, in a world that couldn't be qualified as existing for it was the place where all worlds meet, someone was smiling.
"I think I'm gonna have plenty of fun with these people..."
Note: Miaka speaks a lot in japanese so here's what she actually saidIie – No
Minna – Everyone
So? How was it? As I first wrote it, I thought it might have been confusing but I read it and then thought it's not so bad... Wanna know the rest? Look for my next chapters! While you wait, drop by my profile to read my other fanfics because I warn you: this story's probably gonna be long!
I want to remind people that I already said this fic includes me, friends and family and that I won't accept reviews saying that kinda thing is bad because I warned you, fair and square! I accept flames but only if they have some kind of purpose to help me improve my writings. Every bad anonymous reviews will be removed! And the signed ones will receive a reply! Thanks for reading! Review please!!