Disclaimer: don't own any original names or locations of FF8. But everything else is mine!!!(well i sort of borrowed the title from a friend, who borrowed it from a song, but still!) Muhahahhaha
A/N: Hiya. Yes another story. I love stories. This one is a little weird. A clearer summary, basically it is all set in the past Squall starts to experience very mysterious dreams about a girl in danger and eventually as the dreams become more real and more terrifying he decides he may be seeing it all for a reason….is he supposed to save her.
I warn you this is just a prologue and all seems a little weird, but trust me there is a point. And it will get better and all, this is an introduction.( some concepts such as the sorceresses and the Julia and laguna thing and some ages etc have been changed to fit the story so they are not supposed to be like in the game. ) but give it a go! As always , I hope you will like it, and if some people do I will continue it and if no one likes it I will not. Whatever you guys want. So let me know what you think…and welcome to 'ever dream'. much love xx
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-Prologue-
The power of a sorceress is one passed down through generations, from mother to daughter. Legend has it that there are many bearing the gift from many bloodlines in every generation. In some it is obvious, in others it is easily hidden and in each and every woman the sorceress power manifests in different ways. Some have visions of the future, others wield powerful spells and dark magic while some have the ability to controlling healing and white magic and other spells and blessings. The legend also states that each sorceress has a Knight, a man whose love for her would protect her from all danger.
Julia Heartilly was a sorceress. But something set her apart from all the others, a dark secret of her ancestry. The first of her ancestors known to receive the gift was Alyana, a powerful Baroness. But supposedly Alyana was corrupted by the power and it drove her to madness. She became wicked and cruel and began to harm other sorceresses hoping to take their power. It is believed that at 21 she passed the gift on to her baby daughter, although this seemed only to intensify her thirst for magic. She already wielded powerful dark and evil spells and she could not be defeated. As a dying act, one of her victims cursed her.
Each and every one of her descendants would be corrupted by evil to the point of madness and eventually death, unless they could break the curse. The only way to break the curse centred around a spiritual festival, twilight eve. Twilight eve was the middle day of spring on which people believed the Gods sent a shooting star if they were pleased with the people of the land. To break the curse a sorceress must share true loves kiss on the Twilight eve of her 21st year, the moment the star trailed the sky. Sharing true loves kiss at that moment would confirm the sorceresses love as her Knight and the protection and Love of her Knight would save the sorceress from corruption, breaking the curse on her and the bloodline. Alyana scoffed at the witches curse, but with her very dying breath the witch cursed that no one from such an evil ancestor could ever find true love.
Eventually, shortly after this, Alyana was hunted and killed. In her attempt yet failure to escape her attackers, she abandoned her daughter leaving her only with a pendant of a blood red stone which was to protect her. The child was taken in by a local family who had no idea of the childs heritage and neither the family nor the daughter knew of the curse. When she reached 16 the family whom had raised her married her off to a wealthy lord, but he was a cruel and brutal man. When she reached 19, she fell pregnant but she died giving birth to a daughter.
It seemed that the curse was real, and Julias whole family was plagued with bad luck and difficult circumstances. None of her ancestors managed to break the curse, although it was recorded and passed through the generations, as was the pendant which seemed always to find the next descendant of the line. Some of the sorceresses died before reaching their 21st year, and others fell victim to the curse and became evil and died of madness or persecution.
Julias own mother was the wife of a wealthy lord, whom she married at the age of 16, after her father died. She had never known her mother and her father refused to speak of her.
Julias
mother gave birth to Julia when she was 20, but when her husband
discovered her true heritage as a sorceress he executed her and tried
to abandon the baby Julia.
Luckily she was taken in and raised by the kindly couple who raised
her in a small house in Deling city.
When
they found her, they knew immediately who she was because she carried
the distinctive red pendant which her mother had always worn, but
they knew how cruel the lord was, and they feared for the baby so
they kept her.
Julia dearly loved them as if they were her own
parents. But when she was 18 she learned of her true ancestry and the
terrible curse. Ironically on the day she found out, when she sat
weeping in a field of flowers, she encountered a patrolling soldier
on leave for one day while the General of his army visited the King.
His name was Laguna and he was a kind man with long dark her and
sparkling green eyes. As fate would have it they spent the whole day
talking. He spoke of how he wished to leave the army and wished to
write and settle down. Julia was unable to tell him that she was a
sorceress as she knew that sorceresses were hunted by the soldiers,
but she told him all most everything else of herself.
But when the day became evening he had to leave, and withdrew with his army. For the next few months Julia thought of nothing else, and secretly she wondered if he was the true love the curse had spoken of. It seemed fate was on her side though, as a year later Laguna returned, discharged from the army due to injury.
When Julia discovered his return she was overjoyed, and her rising fear about the curse subsided when the two fell deeply in love. But soon Laguna received a mysterious letter and began to act distantly and strangely. Shortly after that he left, disappearing in the dead of night. The thing he left was a note apologising to Julia for what he had done but the note spoke of how he felt he must save someone called 'Ellone'. Julia had no idea what this meant but she was determined Laguna would return and so she waited almost a year.
But Laguna did not return, and with her 21st year approaching and the curse worrying her more and more, she accepted a proposal from a wealthy Land owner, Lord caraway. Caraway was a surprisingly kind and fair man, and soon Julia found herself falling for him. Shortly after the marriage she became pregnant and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl in the first month of her 21st year and she named the daughter Rinoa, after the woman who had raised her.
At this point, she knew she had no choice but to tell her husband of the terrible curse and she was thankful for the understanding he showed. At the twilight eve festival, Caraway took Julia to the hills, and the moment the shooting star danced across the midnight sky they shared a kiss. Julia believed this had broken the curse, however over the next year she began to feel the power within her grow and the first signs of madness appeared. Eventually bother her and Caraway grew to realise he was not her true love. Both knew it was inevitable that Julia would soon turn, the madness devouring her completely. In her last moment of purity and good, she begged her husband to take Rinoa away and raise her knowing of her magic but not burdening her with knowledge of the curse untill she was 18. She then tearfully begged her husband to kill her, before the madness could destroy the person she was. Reluctantly Caraway fulfilled her wish with one quick strike and he ran with their daughter. But he was chased, the soldiers of the town who were determined to stop the sorceress power from existing.
He
eventually escaped to the nearby town of Timber were he was able to
live peacefully. He loved his daughter dearly, but was a haunted man,
troubled by the fate of the woman he had loved and fearful of how
this curse would affect their daughter. But still he raised her
knowing of her magic from an early age, and he passed down the family
heirloom of the bloodstone necklace, but respectful of his wifes
wishes he told her nothing of the curse.
But just when Rinoa turned
5, Caraway learned he was sick. Knowing he had not much time to live,
he wrote the legend of the curse down and hid it, along with a letter
explaining many things he wanted his daughter to know.
But the night he finished the letter was the night the army found him, still searching for the descendants of the sorceresses. On the arrival of the army, he told his daughter to run to their neighbour and hide but in panic he forgot to give her what he had written.
The soldiers raided his house and demanded he gave up the child but he refused. This lead ultimately to his death. He knew that now his daughter would grow up never knowing of the curse and with his last breath he prayed that she could still overcome it somehow, he prayed she would not suffer the same fate as her mother. He prayed she would never be caught.
-15 years later-
"Go, run!" cried a woman, as she piled bottles, charms and some folded clothes into the arms of a younger woman
"I can not just leave, what about you…" the younger woman sobbed, shaking her head frantically, her long black hair swaying in the wind.
"I said open up" called a loud male voice, accompanied by a pounding on the door "I know you are in there"
"Forget me child." the woman placed a kiss on the forehead of the young woman "save yourself. You know what will happen if they find you, you must escape. I swore that I would protect you and I will not fail now. You must run Rinoa!"
Tearfully the girl nodded "I will never forget you" she whispered to the woman, before running away into the dark winters night.
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Ok there we go!
please don't flame me. See I know it is a little shaky, but it is
supposed to be confusing at the moment. The Laguna thing and his
disappearance is explained later on as is much much else, please let
me know what you think.if anyone wants me to i will continue Thanks guys xx much love. xx leontilly