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NOTE: words within are words that they think or say in their mind.
~*~ means they're in dream mode/state
THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS
by: Rhys Icewind
Chapter 1 - Odd Begginings
It was morning.
Morning at Balamb Garden.
The crystal waters of Balamb Lake glistened in the morning sun. It was breathtaking.
In the middle of the lake floated a young woman. Her blue hair gracefully floating in the wind. With her eyes closed, she concentrated and lifted her left hand up. Suddenly, the orb on her hand glowed and water swirled around her hands and formed a ball in her palms.
"HEY UMI!!!!" a dark-haired woman shouted from the edge of the lake sending the blue-haired SeeD plunging in the cold water.
"AAKKK!!!!" Umi screamed as her head popped from out of the water. "DON"T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!!!"
"sorry." Rinoa said with a smile as she helped umi out of the lake. "We have a mission."
Umi just stared at her.
* * *
Squall walked along the corridors of Balamb Garden towards the elevator. It had been years since the last SeeD mission. This was a big surprise.
He stepped inside the elevator and the doors were closing when a hand stopped it and in came Rinoa and Umi, who was drenched.
"What happened to you?" Squall asked the blue-haired SeeD.
"Don't ask." She replied and just looked at Rinoa who stared at the doors
with her innocent look.
"What??" Rinoa raised her hands palms out. "I said I was sorry"
* * *
Everybody heard the elevator bell rang, and was expectant to see the missing members. A red-headded girl was going to greet them when she saw the soaked Umi.
"Don't ask." a brunnete girl holding a mint-colored, winged septre said.
"let me dry ya!" the red-head offered.
A sweatdrop appeared behind Umi's head and she readily declined. "the last time you tried to dry something it burnt to a crisp Shayla." she pointed.
"It was and accident!!!" protested the red-head.
"an accident that each time you dry something it burned?" Selphie giggled.
"YEAH!!! why don't you..." the red-head was going to say when suddenly, Cid coughed behind his hand. "sorry" Shayla-shayla said in a low voice.
"Let's get to business..." he said "well, It seems that the Lunar Base is having monster problems...so, Esthar made a SeeD request 1400 hours ago. I called you all so that you can elaborate on this. Any objections?"
Everyone just stared at him wondering how he explained things not the usual for-the-child explanation. Quistis noticed that Cid was getting a strange look on himself too.
"Let's go guys" Quistis snapped them out.
"y-yeah..." everybody replied. Leaving Cid in the room.
* * *
After drying off, Umi went with her two best friends, Sakura, the youngest SeeD ever, and Shayla-shayla, toughest of the trio, and they were called 'elementals'. They had powers of their own, correspinding to the three elements: Water, Wind and Fire. What was more strange was, each had a special orb with them: Umi's was attached permanently on the back of her left hand (she was born with it; water element), Sakura's was on her winged septre who only she can touch (she also has a power to summon creatures via the Triple Triad Cards; wind), and Shayla-shayla's was attached to a bracelet she wore on her right hand (she's the only one who can touch it; fire).
The three headed outside where the Ragnarok was and prepared for boarding.
"hurry up!!!" Zell screamed. "Selphie's the pilot!!!!"
"WHAT!!!!" the three shouted and dashed towards the ship entrance.
Selphie was known to leave someone dangling around, excited of taking-off. And just as if on cue, dust clouds fromed as the engines reeved up.
"oh..no..not this time!" Sakura shouted. She raised her septre high and the emerald green beak-gem glowed and the dust clouds spread all over the place as the Ragnarok struggled to fly off.
In the cockpit, Selphie wondered why they couldin't get off. She stood up and walked along the controls murmuring questions to herself.
"anything wrong?" the little brunette asked, showing off her mint-colored septre.
"SAKURA!!!" Selphie shouted. "let the Ragnarok go NOW!! why did you do that anyway?!?!?" the brunette protested.
"try not taking off while others are still outside ok?" Sakura told her gently a sweatdrop formed behind her head.
Selphie quieted down and Sakura let go of the Ragnarok, sending it sky-rocketing upwards due to the pressure build-up. After getting controll over the Ragnarok, they headed for Esthar air station.
* * *
After a few hours, the group went down. A small band of stewardress greeted them and Irvine immediately flirted around, with Quistis stopping him by wrapping her Save the queen on his waist and, with Selphie's help, dragged him back into the group.
"Hello again!" Kiros greeted and Ward had a smile on his face. "Laguna is waiting at the residence" he explained.
"you'll meet your dad again! must be excited huh?" Sakura whispered in Squall's ear.
Squall's eyes just looked at the sky.
* * *
"SQUALL!!!" Ellone greeted with a hug.
"HEY! no hug for me?" Irvine said behind Squall.
"sorry Irvine" Rinoa giggled, "you don't have spacial priviliges"
Irvine just looked at Rinoa.
"don't worry Irvy, i'm sure you'll get what you deserve" Selphie said.
"what's that supposed to mean?"
Selphie just ginned at him.
* * *
The group sat down on the comfy chairs in the living room as they waited for Laguna. Squall kept making excuses to Quistis and was trying to get out when Laguna arrived.
"SQUALL!! How is it??" Laguna walked towards Squall.
"not good now..." he murmured. Squall felt Quistis' nuge in the ribs. "Fine" he answered aloud.
"Good! I just wish that we met for different reasons" Laguna frowned. "The moon seems to be releasing a shower of monsters at the Lunar Base"
"Lunar Cry?" Quistis suggested.
"No" Kiros replied, "the scientists say that it is an entirely different phenomena. For now they called it a 'Lunar Shower' they say it's the first time this happened. And some monsters infiltrated the base . There isn't enough men to fight the monsters there..."
"And you need our help." Selphie finished.
"Yup." Laguna replied. "and I bet you know where to go next."
"yeah..." all of the replied.
* * *
So, all of them headed for the Esthar Airstation and prepaired the Ragnarok for take-off to the Lunar Base. It was the first time in years that the Ragnarok was going to outer space again and major check-ups were made. After all of that was done, they blasted off towards outer space.
When they reached space, the gravity dropped and they all floated (except for Selphie who was kept tied to her seat). The fun stopped when Selphie turned on the anti-gravity device.
"that was fun!!" Shayla-shayla giggled in her seat.
"YEAH! LET'S DO THAT AGAIN!" Rinoa shouted, raising her fists in the air.
Selphie pouted at them. "That's unfair!!!! you all have fun while I stayed buckled here!"
Everyone just stared at her.
Sakura blikned.
"you wanted to drive." she added.
There was silence.
"All of you, do what you want. I'm sleeping" Umi broke off and stepped out the cockpit.
* * *
Umi, right after sitting on the comfy chairs below the cockpit, fell asleep immediately. Her day hadn't started right and she had a feeling that it wouldin't end right too.
~*~
Umi walked along a dark path in fact, it was so dark that it was zero visibility.
"What the heck is going on?" she shouted. "why is it so dark here? who turned off the lights??"
She turned her head from one side to the other trying to make her eyes adjust to the darkness. As she scanned the room, she suddenly saw a faint blue light. Umi headed closer towards the light and she tried to touch and grab it, it moved then moved again from one place to another. It circled around Umi who was still trying to catch it.
"atlantis..." a bodiless voice called.
Umi jumped in surprise.
"Atlantis.." it said again.
Umi stared at the blue light that stopped right infront of her.
"Who are there?" the blue-haired SeeD asked.
No one answered.
Umi tried to see any form in this... whatever it was... but couldin't see any. Umi couldin't imagine what it was that had called her attention and why it did it was all too mysterious.
Suddenly, from afar, she heard a familiar voice calling her and she felt the ground shake.
"Selphie??" she whispered.
~*~
Umi woke up to find Selphie shaking her heard and shouting: "WERE HERE!!"
"I'M AWAKE!!!!" Umi shouted back.
Selphie stopped and looked at the (literally) shaken SeeD. Then, she giggled and her giggle evolved into laughter.
Umi had a big question mark in her head. "WHAT?" she shouted.
"(giggle) y-your h-h-hair!!!" and she broke into laughter again.
The blue-haired SeeD looked towards the winshield glass for her reflection. And there was one thing she saw: A big mess.
Umi just fainted.
* * *
After Umi fixed her hair and a few hours of more exterminating and disintigrating the remaining monsters, the team talked to the new head of the Lunar Base, Sylia Stingray.
"What!!!! you want us to go to the moon to see what's wrong??" Selphie shouted.
"That's CRAZY!!" Irvine followed.
"No, not at all. We've already sent previous expiditons there and all have been sucessful we also have a lab there called the Lunar Dome. We need you to be the bodyguards of the team of scientists we'll send with you" the silver-haired woman said.
"How much of the moon have you covered so far?" Squall inquired.
"about 20% of it"
The goup just stared at each other.
"It's only 20 percent because of monster problems" Sylia added.
"You have to get permission from dad for that. He's the client" Squall said in his usual monotone voice.
The group's jaws dropped.
"dad?" Quistis put her hand on his forehead, "are you sick?"
"NO" came the irritated reply.
"it's a miracle..." Zell said.
Everybody just stared at the scar-faced teenager.
"I don't know what's going on but, may I ask who is this 'dad'?" asked Sylia.
"His dad is Esthar's president, Laguna Loire" Sakura relpied. "'dad' was the rarest thing you'd hear him say about Mr. President" she whispered.
After hearing the added info, Sylia stepped out of the office to talk to Laguna in the communications room along with Quistis. After a few hours, the two came back.
Quistis looked at each of them and said, "pack up, were going to the moon"
* * *
A lone man walked across the hallway feeling the world around him. He was tall and dressed up like someone from the high society. He stopped right infront of a door that was beautifully carved and decorated. It was partly made of gold and partly made of a shiny aqua colored stone.
As if on cue, the door opened and entered it. Inside, a beautifully dressed woman greeted him. Not only was her dress beautiful, but the woman was beautiful herself and at first look there was no doubt that she was a princess or a queen.
"have you done as told?" the woman said in a serious voice.
"yes, m'lady" the man replied.
"good. she MUST be destroyed before she ruins my plans" the woman laughed evilly.
The man just stared at her blankly, his eyes showing no emotion.
* * *
When the group arrived at the Lunar Dome with head scientists Ami Mizuno and Korhan Ri, there were MAJOR monster problems. And half of the lab was destroyed. But amidst the chaos, Gordon Freeman (head of the test dept.), with a few others in their lab hard-suits, were able to defend the remaining half of the lab from the horde of monthers that attacked them.
"MR. FREEMAN!!! are you OK?" Ami approached the comrade.
"I'm fine. thanks to my hard-suit" he smiled at the blue-haired scientist. "back-up?" he asked, pointing towards the group of SeeDs.
"yes. they're the SeeDs from Balamb we've been telling you about" Korhan replied.
Freeman waved at them and the proper introductions were made.
* * *
With a new batch of bodyguards, the three scientists talked along the way heading towards the Artifacts Facility, where they placed the relics found in the moon.
"there are new ones and we're planning to search again tomorrow, now that we have the proper pest controllers" Gordon smiled at the SeeD group.
"the things we do for the client" Shayla-Shayla whispered to Zell. Zell nodded in agreement.
"As for now, you may plan out what to do tomorrow. You can rest. This is the part of the Lab that can't be penatrated." he said.
"How can you say that?" Irvine inquired, removing his hat because of the heat.
"We have force barriers in this part where the team's quarters and the artifacts facility are found" the brown-haired man said while fixing his glasses.
"why didn't you just put force barriers all over the place?" Sakura inqured.
"lack of funds" came ami's sudden reply.
While they chatted, they didn't notice a figure move into the shadows.
* * *
END CHAPTER 1
NOTE: hehehe....i hope you liked it n'all. Its ,my 1st fanfic (hope ya don't mind). please reveiw (be a responsible reader!). Thanks lots!!
If this chapter was bad, I swear that i'll make up for it in the chapters to come. ^_^;
NOTE: words within are words that they think or say in their mind.
~*~ means they're in dream mode/state
THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS
by: Rhys Icewind
Chapter 1 - Odd Begginings
It was morning.
Morning at Balamb Garden.
The crystal waters of Balamb Lake glistened in the morning sun. It was breathtaking.
In the middle of the lake floated a young woman. Her blue hair gracefully floating in the wind. With her eyes closed, she concentrated and lifted her left hand up. Suddenly, the orb on her hand glowed and water swirled around her hands and formed a ball in her palms.
"HEY UMI!!!!" a dark-haired woman shouted from the edge of the lake sending the blue-haired SeeD plunging in the cold water.
"AAKKK!!!!" Umi screamed as her head popped from out of the water. "DON"T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!!!"
"sorry." Rinoa said with a smile as she helped umi out of the lake. "We have a mission."
Umi just stared at her.
* * *
Squall walked along the corridors of Balamb Garden towards the elevator. It had been years since the last SeeD mission. This was a big surprise.
He stepped inside the elevator and the doors were closing when a hand stopped it and in came Rinoa and Umi, who was drenched.
"What happened to you?" Squall asked the blue-haired SeeD.
"Don't ask." She replied and just looked at Rinoa who stared at the doors
with her innocent look.
"What??" Rinoa raised her hands palms out. "I said I was sorry"
* * *
Everybody heard the elevator bell rang, and was expectant to see the missing members. A red-headded girl was going to greet them when she saw the soaked Umi.
"Don't ask." a brunnete girl holding a mint-colored, winged septre said.
"let me dry ya!" the red-head offered.
A sweatdrop appeared behind Umi's head and she readily declined. "the last time you tried to dry something it burnt to a crisp Shayla." she pointed.
"It was and accident!!!" protested the red-head.
"an accident that each time you dry something it burned?" Selphie giggled.
"YEAH!!! why don't you..." the red-head was going to say when suddenly, Cid coughed behind his hand. "sorry" Shayla-shayla said in a low voice.
"Let's get to business..." he said "well, It seems that the Lunar Base is having monster problems...so, Esthar made a SeeD request 1400 hours ago. I called you all so that you can elaborate on this. Any objections?"
Everyone just stared at him wondering how he explained things not the usual for-the-child explanation. Quistis noticed that Cid was getting a strange look on himself too.
"Let's go guys" Quistis snapped them out.
"y-yeah..." everybody replied. Leaving Cid in the room.
* * *
After drying off, Umi went with her two best friends, Sakura, the youngest SeeD ever, and Shayla-shayla, toughest of the trio, and they were called 'elementals'. They had powers of their own, correspinding to the three elements: Water, Wind and Fire. What was more strange was, each had a special orb with them: Umi's was attached permanently on the back of her left hand (she was born with it; water element), Sakura's was on her winged septre who only she can touch (she also has a power to summon creatures via the Triple Triad Cards; wind), and Shayla-shayla's was attached to a bracelet she wore on her right hand (she's the only one who can touch it; fire).
The three headed outside where the Ragnarok was and prepared for boarding.
"hurry up!!!" Zell screamed. "Selphie's the pilot!!!!"
"WHAT!!!!" the three shouted and dashed towards the ship entrance.
Selphie was known to leave someone dangling around, excited of taking-off. And just as if on cue, dust clouds fromed as the engines reeved up.
"oh..no..not this time!" Sakura shouted. She raised her septre high and the emerald green beak-gem glowed and the dust clouds spread all over the place as the Ragnarok struggled to fly off.
In the cockpit, Selphie wondered why they couldin't get off. She stood up and walked along the controls murmuring questions to herself.
"anything wrong?" the little brunette asked, showing off her mint-colored septre.
"SAKURA!!!" Selphie shouted. "let the Ragnarok go NOW!! why did you do that anyway?!?!?" the brunette protested.
"try not taking off while others are still outside ok?" Sakura told her gently a sweatdrop formed behind her head.
Selphie quieted down and Sakura let go of the Ragnarok, sending it sky-rocketing upwards due to the pressure build-up. After getting controll over the Ragnarok, they headed for Esthar air station.
* * *
After a few hours, the group went down. A small band of stewardress greeted them and Irvine immediately flirted around, with Quistis stopping him by wrapping her Save the queen on his waist and, with Selphie's help, dragged him back into the group.
"Hello again!" Kiros greeted and Ward had a smile on his face. "Laguna is waiting at the residence" he explained.
"you'll meet your dad again! must be excited huh?" Sakura whispered in Squall's ear.
Squall's eyes just looked at the sky.
* * *
"SQUALL!!!" Ellone greeted with a hug.
"HEY! no hug for me?" Irvine said behind Squall.
"sorry Irvine" Rinoa giggled, "you don't have spacial priviliges"
Irvine just looked at Rinoa.
"don't worry Irvy, i'm sure you'll get what you deserve" Selphie said.
"what's that supposed to mean?"
Selphie just ginned at him.
* * *
The group sat down on the comfy chairs in the living room as they waited for Laguna. Squall kept making excuses to Quistis and was trying to get out when Laguna arrived.
"SQUALL!! How is it??" Laguna walked towards Squall.
"not good now..." he murmured. Squall felt Quistis' nuge in the ribs. "Fine" he answered aloud.
"Good! I just wish that we met for different reasons" Laguna frowned. "The moon seems to be releasing a shower of monsters at the Lunar Base"
"Lunar Cry?" Quistis suggested.
"No" Kiros replied, "the scientists say that it is an entirely different phenomena. For now they called it a 'Lunar Shower' they say it's the first time this happened. And some monsters infiltrated the base . There isn't enough men to fight the monsters there..."
"And you need our help." Selphie finished.
"Yup." Laguna replied. "and I bet you know where to go next."
"yeah..." all of the replied.
* * *
So, all of them headed for the Esthar Airstation and prepaired the Ragnarok for take-off to the Lunar Base. It was the first time in years that the Ragnarok was going to outer space again and major check-ups were made. After all of that was done, they blasted off towards outer space.
When they reached space, the gravity dropped and they all floated (except for Selphie who was kept tied to her seat). The fun stopped when Selphie turned on the anti-gravity device.
"that was fun!!" Shayla-shayla giggled in her seat.
"YEAH! LET'S DO THAT AGAIN!" Rinoa shouted, raising her fists in the air.
Selphie pouted at them. "That's unfair!!!! you all have fun while I stayed buckled here!"
Everyone just stared at her.
Sakura blikned.
"you wanted to drive." she added.
There was silence.
"All of you, do what you want. I'm sleeping" Umi broke off and stepped out the cockpit.
* * *
Umi, right after sitting on the comfy chairs below the cockpit, fell asleep immediately. Her day hadn't started right and she had a feeling that it wouldin't end right too.
~*~
Umi walked along a dark path in fact, it was so dark that it was zero visibility.
"What the heck is going on?" she shouted. "why is it so dark here? who turned off the lights??"
She turned her head from one side to the other trying to make her eyes adjust to the darkness. As she scanned the room, she suddenly saw a faint blue light. Umi headed closer towards the light and she tried to touch and grab it, it moved then moved again from one place to another. It circled around Umi who was still trying to catch it.
"atlantis..." a bodiless voice called.
Umi jumped in surprise.
"Atlantis.." it said again.
Umi stared at the blue light that stopped right infront of her.
"Who are there?" the blue-haired SeeD asked.
No one answered.
Umi tried to see any form in this... whatever it was... but couldin't see any. Umi couldin't imagine what it was that had called her attention and why it did it was all too mysterious.
Suddenly, from afar, she heard a familiar voice calling her and she felt the ground shake.
"Selphie??" she whispered.
~*~
Umi woke up to find Selphie shaking her heard and shouting: "WERE HERE!!"
"I'M AWAKE!!!!" Umi shouted back.
Selphie stopped and looked at the (literally) shaken SeeD. Then, she giggled and her giggle evolved into laughter.
Umi had a big question mark in her head. "WHAT?" she shouted.
"(giggle) y-your h-h-hair!!!" and she broke into laughter again.
The blue-haired SeeD looked towards the winshield glass for her reflection. And there was one thing she saw: A big mess.
Umi just fainted.
* * *
After Umi fixed her hair and a few hours of more exterminating and disintigrating the remaining monsters, the team talked to the new head of the Lunar Base, Sylia Stingray.
"What!!!! you want us to go to the moon to see what's wrong??" Selphie shouted.
"That's CRAZY!!" Irvine followed.
"No, not at all. We've already sent previous expiditons there and all have been sucessful we also have a lab there called the Lunar Dome. We need you to be the bodyguards of the team of scientists we'll send with you" the silver-haired woman said.
"How much of the moon have you covered so far?" Squall inquired.
"about 20% of it"
The goup just stared at each other.
"It's only 20 percent because of monster problems" Sylia added.
"You have to get permission from dad for that. He's the client" Squall said in his usual monotone voice.
The group's jaws dropped.
"dad?" Quistis put her hand on his forehead, "are you sick?"
"NO" came the irritated reply.
"it's a miracle..." Zell said.
Everybody just stared at the scar-faced teenager.
"I don't know what's going on but, may I ask who is this 'dad'?" asked Sylia.
"His dad is Esthar's president, Laguna Loire" Sakura relpied. "'dad' was the rarest thing you'd hear him say about Mr. President" she whispered.
After hearing the added info, Sylia stepped out of the office to talk to Laguna in the communications room along with Quistis. After a few hours, the two came back.
Quistis looked at each of them and said, "pack up, were going to the moon"
* * *
A lone man walked across the hallway feeling the world around him. He was tall and dressed up like someone from the high society. He stopped right infront of a door that was beautifully carved and decorated. It was partly made of gold and partly made of a shiny aqua colored stone.
As if on cue, the door opened and entered it. Inside, a beautifully dressed woman greeted him. Not only was her dress beautiful, but the woman was beautiful herself and at first look there was no doubt that she was a princess or a queen.
"have you done as told?" the woman said in a serious voice.
"yes, m'lady" the man replied.
"good. she MUST be destroyed before she ruins my plans" the woman laughed evilly.
The man just stared at her blankly, his eyes showing no emotion.
* * *
When the group arrived at the Lunar Dome with head scientists Ami Mizuno and Korhan Ri, there were MAJOR monster problems. And half of the lab was destroyed. But amidst the chaos, Gordon Freeman (head of the test dept.), with a few others in their lab hard-suits, were able to defend the remaining half of the lab from the horde of monthers that attacked them.
"MR. FREEMAN!!! are you OK?" Ami approached the comrade.
"I'm fine. thanks to my hard-suit" he smiled at the blue-haired scientist. "back-up?" he asked, pointing towards the group of SeeDs.
"yes. they're the SeeDs from Balamb we've been telling you about" Korhan replied.
Freeman waved at them and the proper introductions were made.
* * *
With a new batch of bodyguards, the three scientists talked along the way heading towards the Artifacts Facility, where they placed the relics found in the moon.
"there are new ones and we're planning to search again tomorrow, now that we have the proper pest controllers" Gordon smiled at the SeeD group.
"the things we do for the client" Shayla-Shayla whispered to Zell. Zell nodded in agreement.
"As for now, you may plan out what to do tomorrow. You can rest. This is the part of the Lab that can't be penatrated." he said.
"How can you say that?" Irvine inquired, removing his hat because of the heat.
"We have force barriers in this part where the team's quarters and the artifacts facility are found" the brown-haired man said while fixing his glasses.
"why didn't you just put force barriers all over the place?" Sakura inqured.
"lack of funds" came ami's sudden reply.
While they chatted, they didn't notice a figure move into the shadows.
* * *
END CHAPTER 1
NOTE: hehehe....i hope you liked it n'all. Its ,my 1st fanfic (hope ya don't mind). please reveiw (be a responsible reader!). Thanks lots!!
If this chapter was bad, I swear that i'll make up for it in the chapters to come. ^_^;