Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, but some of them I do, but they are in the next chapter or so.
Nightmares of Death
Chapter 1: The First Death
It was a normal day in Balamb Garden. The sun was shining brightly down upon it, making the garden glow a silvery white. The students were doing the usual. Chatting, eating, rushing to classes, or just sitting.
"Quistis!!!!"
The blonde looked up and saw Selphie standing over her. "Selphie, do you need anything? If you don't, please leave me alone. I'm marking papers if you don't see..."
"But that's why I came in here the first place!!! To get you away from this horrible pile of junky tests! It's such a beautiful day out, you should go and get some fresh air!" Selphie said, leaning on one foot.
"I know, I know. But I really have lot's to mark today! And this is a important test for the younger students!" Quistis pointed to the stacks of paper.
Selphie picked one up. "How to junction a GF... ewwy! I hated this test back in Trabia!"
Quistis laughed, "Well, I did to actually. Now if you don't mind, I have to go back to..."
"Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!! Someone!!!!!! Get over here quick!!!!!!!!"
A girl with a brown ponytail ran into the room. "Instructor!!!! Hurry!!!! Someone's hurt!!!!!"
Quistis jumped out of her seat and quickly ran out of the room, Selphie right behind. Quistis pushed through the crowd that had formed around someone.
"Excuse me, please move aside. Thank you..." Quistis said over and over.
Selphie screamed, "Eeee!!!" And she covered her eyes.
Quistis gasped, "Oh my god..." She starred down at the boy who was sprawled on the floor. He was slowly turning a hideous green colour... "Is..is he ...dead?"
Right on the word dead, the boy jumped up... well, he wasn't exactly a boy anymore. Everyone screamed.
"Quisty!!!! What is that???!!?" Selphie screamed while looking at the green monster that use to be a student.
Quistis was silent. The boy's skin had completely turned a sickly green, and his eyes were no longer human. They were glowing red, and his hair disappeared, while his ears grew longer.
"Somebody, go get Squall! And everyone, stay away from this...boy...until we know what is wrong!" Quistis screamed over the crowd of students.
Everyone was silent as the watched the green thing, slowly, walking towards them.
"Headmaster Squall!!!!!!!!" Someone pounded on the door to the office.
Xu opened it, and the student dashed right in without permission.
Squall frowned, "I would appericiate it if you would..."
"Headmaster I'm very sorry!!!! But we have a huge problem down on floor 2! Instructor Quistis is trying to hold back some creature! Please go down as see!"
Squall quickly got up, grabbed his gunblade, and dashed to the elevator.
"Help help!!!!"
The green monster smiled as it strangled a nearby student, and dropped her onto the floor.
"More...." It hissed.
Quistis led everyone out of the area, just when Squall came out of the elevator.
"Quistis! What's wrong?" Squall jogged towards her.
Quistis pointed with a shaky finger. "That...that thing just killed a student...."
Squall looked and his eyes went wide. "What the hell is that..."
"It was a boy...but it turned into this thing...."
Squall nodded, "I'll order some of our SeeD's to try and kill this thing."
"But, but the boy! He's a boy..."
"I don't think we can get him back Quistis. He's dead. Well, he's not a boy anymore." Squall sighed. "You and Selphie bring all the students here up to my office. It should be safer there. And please get Rinoa, Zell, and Irvine to. I think they're in the cafeteria." And with that he ran off to get the SeeDs.
"What happened?" Rinoa asked a student who had seen what happened.
"The boy...Marc... he was reading on the bench when all of a sudden he screamed... and then there was no sound." The girl replied. "And we could all see a thing moving around inside of him... it was so gross!"
Rinoa nodded, and looked over at Quistis. She shrugged. "I don't know... did anybody see what that 'thing' was?"
Nobody said anything.
The quiet was interuppted as Squall dashed into the room. "We got the green thing killed, and we've brought the corpse to Dr. Kadowaki to examine it to see what happened to that boy and how he turned into this thing."
Zell was about to comment...when he say a shadow passing by the window, and gasped...
Author's note: So how did you like it so far? Yes, it may be weird, but it will all be nicely explained in Chapter 2.
