Artemisia

by Spirit Lovelorn



(What if Ultimecia had a daughter? How would she deal with the aftermath of her mother's

terror? This is obviously set in the far future of Ultimecia's time. There could possibly be

another story about her later on.)



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I am Artemisia. You might not know me, but you probably have heard of my mother, Sorceress

Ultimecia. Yes, the ruthless witch who destroyed countless innocent lives, possessed people in

the past, sought out time compression. She used to be different. She was young and beautiful and

kind, but it all changed when those men attacked her. I was five when it happened, before she

was a sorceress. I don't want to go into details, but it was horrible. She shut herself up in her

room and cried at night. She received her magic three years after that, and her sense of power

became terrifying.



Now she's gone, my mother. I am alone, shunned into isolation because of whose child I was

and to remind me that I am tainted by mother's evil doings. They fear that I too am a sorceress,

and that one day I will be a mistress to the master of Hell. I possess no magic within my veins,

not even the weakest of para-magic. I am mortal, a simple human like the rest, and I will always

be that way.



You probably want me dead so you can live without worry, but if you would only open your

eyes, you would see that I'm the same as you. My mother wasn't evil; she was wronged. And I

had to stand by her side, because family is forever. Without me, she would have been alone.



I don't go up to the clock tower anymore. Her room is up there. I'm afraid to see the blood. Her

blood. I'm not angry at those SeeDs who killed her; they had their reasons. They were protecting

the past, their present. I don't think they realized that they took away someone's mother. They

thought they were killing an enemy.



...Somebody, anybody, if you can hear me, please. I don't want to be alone anymore.



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To my friends on FF.N... I will finish Scars of Revenge. I have the whole thing planned to the

end, but it will take some time. So please be patient, and I'll be waiting to read your stuff

(especially you, Aya-chan). Feel free to e-mail me in the meantime. I'd love to hear from you!